The life and work of Ernesto de Martino : Italian perspectives on apocalypse and rebirth in the modern study of religion /

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"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 i...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geisshuesler, Flavio A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Edition:Book edition.
Subjects:
De Martino, Ernesto, > 1908-1965.
1900-1999
Religion > Study and teaching > Italy > History > 20th century.
Anthropology of religion > Italy.
Religion and sociology > Italy.
Religion historians > Italy > Biography.
Religion > Étude et enseignement > Italie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anthropologie religieuse > Italie.
Sociologie religieuse > Italie.
Historiens de la religion > Italie > Biographies.
RELIGION / History
Anthropology of religion.
Religion and sociology.
Religion historians.
Religion > Study and teaching.
Italy.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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