TY - BOOK ID - 85826889 TI - Documenting the history of religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950-1970) : letters, reports and requests across the Iron Curtain PY - 2021 SN - 9789004459267 9789004459274 900445926X 9004459278 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Religions KW - History KW - International Association for the History of Religions. KW - Cold War KW - Religion and politics KW - Religious aspects KW - Magyar Tudományos Akadémia KW - Hungary KW - Intellectual life KW - Economic history KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - Economic conditions KW - History, Economic KW - 378.4 <439> KW - 943.9.08 KW - Comparative religion KW - Denominations, Religious KW - Religion, Comparative KW - Religions, Comparative KW - Religious denominations KW - World religions KW - Civilization KW - Gods KW - Religion KW - 943.9.08 Geschiedenis van Hongarije: republiek--(1945-heden) KW - Geschiedenis van Hongarije: republiek--(1945-heden) KW - 378.4 <439> Universiteiten--Hongarije KW - Universiteiten--Hongarije KW - Association internationale pour l'histoire des religions KW - Associazione internazionale di storia dell religioni KW - IAHR KW - I.A.H.R. KW - Association for the History of Religions KW - International Association for the Study of History of Religions KW - Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85826889 AB - "The present volume offers a new account of the activities of International Association for the History of Religions during the Cold War. By focusing on the IAHR membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1957, the book reconsiders the impact of the Iron Curtain. Valerio Severino examines unpublished international correspondences, bureaucratic requests, confidential reports submitted by the delegates after their participation in congresses in Western Europe and the USA. Facts and insights about leading Hungarian scholars and internal processes of the IAHR are reconstructed in detail. Through doing so, Severino is able to evaluate the permeability of the Iron Curtain, the exchange of knowledge between the opposing blocs, the ideological control exercised through the Academy and the ways in which academics subjected their work to this obligation"-- ER -