Documenting the history of religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950-1970): letters, reports and requests across the Iron Curtain
"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 examin...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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| In: |
Studies in the history of religions (volume 172)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in the history of religions
volume 172 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
International Association for the History of Religions
/ Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
/ Religion
/ History
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
International Association for the History of Religions
B Religions History 20th century Sources |
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| Summary: | "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 Valerio Severino examines unpublished international correspondences, bureaucratic requests, confidential reports submitted by the delegates after their participation in congresses in Western Europe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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index |
| ISBN: | 900445926X |