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Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions : the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
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ISBN: 9780195394337 019539433X 9780195394344 0195394348 9786612465871 1282465872 0199745277 0199777357 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York: Oxford university press,

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This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called ""Chicago

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