Religious Studies: A Global View

Smith, Jonathan Z. 2004, Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Söderblom, Na ...

—— 1986, Religionen und Religion. Systematische Einführung in die Religions- wissenschaft, Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. —— 1992 ...

Eastern Europe Eugen Ciurtin Prehistory of the study of religions 53 The emergence of the study of religions 55 Early leading fi ...

D ESPITE THE INCLUSION OFMircea Eliade in major histories of the history of religions (e.g. Michaels [ed.] 1997), and even Eliad ...

side by side. That mixture characterizes religious studies in Eastern Europe today. In the very same cultural location, a Frazer ...

religious studies in her or his own cultural history than that of her or his neighbors. One implication of this diversity is tha ...

on Three Seas, viz. through the Caucasus, Iran and especially India, written after his trip (1466–1472) (Nikitin 1948) but only ...

independent status. One aspect that has been particularly important for this shifting frame was the discovery of the religious w ...

among the émigrés was the Polish poet, Aleksander Chodêko (1804–1891). Having spent time in Persia as a Russian envoy, he later ...

Central Asia and Iran, searching for the origins of the Magyars, whom he hopelessly considered to be of Turkish origin (Vámbéry ...

Sándor 1984; Ligeti 1942–1944, 1984/2000; Csetri 1989; Bethlenfalvy 1989–1990; Le Calloc’h 2000–2006). He concentrated on the Ti ...

It required great erudition and immense knowledge acquired through the reading of the original sources, and a creative use of th ...

Balcerowicz and Mejor 2000). Stefan Stasiak (1884–1962), a pupil and colleague of Schayer, published in 1925 his study on the Âa ...

who started from a specific yet undiscussed Eastern European, sometimes even Orthodox Christian, paradigm. One effect of his emi ...

with different academic milieux, from the late colonial to the early global, and as a result how fragmented their legacies are. ...

with parallels to ‘the study of religions’ (as in the name of the European Association for the Study of Religions), sciences rel ...

even now there are many people, otherwise quite well-informed, who imagine that there is an essential difference between Buddhis ...

Institutionalization With the end of Communist rule, Eastern Europeans have moved relatively quickly not only to study religion ...

In 2005 the University of Szeged in Hungary, together with West Virginia University, launched the electronic journal Religion an ...

integration’. In January 2006 the Andrew Mellon Foundation, in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Studies at New Europe ...