The life and work of Ernesto de Martino: Italian perspectives on apocalypse and rebirth in the modern study of religion
Let the earth shake : from crisis-born hero to master of civilizational crisis -- The decline of the West (1908-1929) : the rupture of time in modernity and the rise of the prophets of crisis -- Civil religion (1929-1335) : the return to something new as modernist alternative to Mircea Eliade's...
| Published in: | Studies in the history of religions |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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| In: |
Studies in the history of religions (volume 173)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in the history of religions
volume 173 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
De Martino, Ernesto 1908-1965
/ Social anthropology
/ Science of Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
De Martino, Ernesto (1908-1965)
B Religion Study and teaching (Italy) History 20th century B Religion and sociology (Italy) B Anthropology of religion (Italy) B Religion historians (Italy) Biography |
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| Summary: | Let the earth shake : from crisis-born hero to master of civilizational crisis -- The decline of the West (1908-1929) : the rupture of time in modernity and the rise of the prophets of crisis -- Civil religion (1929-1335) : the return to something new as modernist alternative to Mircea Eliade's politics of nostalgia -- The crisis of the presence (1936-1944) : the antifascist sacralization of politics and the rise of magical thinking during WWII -- De-historification (1944-1948) : shamanic magic and the dialectic movement between Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Critical ethnocentrism (1949-1959) : the Southern Period and the articulation of a post-colonial anthropology alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Loyalty to the cultural homeland (1960-1965) : critical ethnocentrism as an anticipatory defense against relativism and interpretative anthropology -- The ethos of transcendence (1965-1977) : decision and the moral imperative as anticipatory response to postmodernism -- Conclusion: Let the earth shake (again) or why rebirth must lead to a new crisis. "In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino, Flavio A. Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy's most colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino's dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de Martino's perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of crisis"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004457704 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004457720 |