Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions

Christian K. Wedemeyer is Assistant Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity SchoolWendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction I: Two Scholars, a "School" and a Conference Christian K. WedemeyerIntroduction II: Life and Art, or Politics and Religion, in the Writings of Mircea EliadeWendy DonigerPart One: Joachim Wach: Contexts, Categories, and ControversyHans G. Kippenberg-Joachim Wach between the George-Circle and Weber's Typology of Religious CommunitiesSteven M. Wasserstrom-The Master-Interpreter: Notes on the German Career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935)Gregory D. Alles-After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach's Unfinished ProjectCharles S. Preston-Wach, Radhakrishnan, and RelativismPart Two: Mircea Eliade: Literature and PoliticsMatei Calinescu-Eliade and Ionesco in the Post-World War II Years: Questions of Identity in ExileDaniel Dubuisson-The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of the Eliadean Text: A Contribution to Critical Theory and Discourses on ReligionsAntoine Faivre-Modern Western Esoteric Currents in the Work of Mircea Eliade: The Extent and Limits of their PresenceMoshe Idel-The Camouflaged Sacred in Mircea Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and ScholarshipBryan Rennie-The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of ReligionJonathan Z. Smith-The Eternal DeferralPart Three: Mircea Eliade: Politics and LiteratureFlorin Turcanu-South-East Europe and the Idea of the History of Religions in Mircea EliadeElaine Fisher-Fascist Scholars, Fascist Scholarship: The Quest for Ur-Fascism and the Study of ReligionAnne T. Mocko-Tracing the Red Thread: Anticommunist Themes in the Work of Mircea EliadeCarlo Ginzburg-Mircea Eliade's Ambivalent LegacyList of Contributors