Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish scholar Geo Widengren (1907–1996) was a towering figure on the international landscape of the history of religions. This essay reads Widengren as a forgotten classic, i.e., an author whose works have ceased to be read by contemporary students and scholars. Widengr...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 329-341 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Widengren, Geo 1907-1996
/ Science of Religion
/ Methodology
/ Phenomenology of religion
/ Comparative religion
/ Philology
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B history of the study of religions B evolutionism B Geo Widengren B Philology |
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