Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 3-4, 2006 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Introduction I : two scholars, a "school," and a conference / Christian K. Wedemeyer
Introduction II : life and art, or politics and religion, in the writings of Mircea Eliade / Wendy Doniger
Pt. I. Joachim Wach : contexts, categories, and controversy. Joachim Wach between the George circle and Weber's typology of religious communities / Hans G. Kippenberg
The master-interpreter : notes on the German career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935) / Steven M. Wasserstrom
After the naming explosion : Joachim Wach's unfinished project / Gregory D. Alles
Wach, Radhakrishnan, and relativism / Charles S. Preston
Pt. II. Mircea Eliade : literature and politics. Eliade and Ionesco in the post-World War II years : questions of identity in exile / Matei Calinescu
The poetical and rhetorical structure of the Eliadean text : a contribution to critical theory and discourses on religions / Daniel Dubuisson
Modern Western esoteric currents in the work of Mircea Eliade : the extent and limits of their presence / Antoine Faivre
The camouflaged sacred in Mircea Eliade's self-perception, literature, and scholarship / Moshe Idel
The influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology on Mircea Eliade's understanding of religion / Bryan Rennie
The eternal deferral / Jonathan Z. Smith
Pt. III. Mircea Eliade : politics and literature. Southeast Europe and the idea of the history of religions in Mircea Eliade / Florin Turcanu
Fascist scholars, fascist scholarship : the quest for ur-fascism and the study of religion / Elaine Fisher
Tracing the red thread : anti-communist themes in the work of Mircea Eliade / Anne T. Mocko
Mircea Eliade's ambivalent legacy / Carlo Ginzburg.
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Hermeneutics, politics, and the history of religions : the contested legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade. ISBN 9780195394344. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
