The Legacy, Life and Work of Geo Widengren and the Study of the History of Religions After World War II

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49936-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 174, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 834 g

Reihe: Numen Book Series

Professor Geo Widengren (1907–1996), holder of the chair in History of Religions and Psychology of Religions at Uppsala University between 1940 and 1973, is one of Sweden’s best-known scholars in the field of religious studies. His involvement in the start of the IAHR and publications on topics such as the phenomenology of religions, Iranian studies and Middle Eastern Religions make Widengren one of the founding fathers of the History of Religions as an academic discipline. This volume pays tribute to Widengren’s academic achievements and critically discusses his work in light of the latest academic findings and research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Larsson, Göran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

part 1: Thesis and International Work

1 Geo Widengren: A Portrait of a Swedish Historian of Religions

Göran Larsson

2 Hebrew Laments in the Light of Mesopotamian Material

Göran Eidevall

3 Professor Geo Widengren, IAHR Vice-President 1950–1960, IAHR President 1960–1970, IAHR Honorary Life Member 1996

Tim Jensen and Satoko Fujiwara

part 2: Iranian Cultures, Languages and Religions

4 Geo Widengren and the Study of Iranian Religion

Anders Hultgård

5 The Eclipse of Geo Widengren in the Study of Iranian Religions

Albert de Jong

6 “King and Saviour”: Geo Widengren’s Early Contributions (1938–1955) to the History of Iranian Religions

Mihaela Timus

part 3: A Phenomenological Approach

7 Geo Widengren and Swedish Phenomenology of Religion versus Italian Comparative Historical Typology

Giovanni Casadio

8 The World of Religion: A Reevaluation of Geo Widengren’s Phenomenology of Religion

Clemens Cavallin

part 4: Method, Criticism and a Public Intellectual

9 The Reception and Criticism of Geo Widengren in the Nordic Countries: The Debate over the Origin of Religion

René Gothóni and Göran Larsson

10 Before the Bible: Middle-Eastern Religions and the Origins of Christianity in the Works of Geo Widengren

Christer Hedin

11 Tor Andræ and Geo Widengren: Perspectives and Purposes of the Study of the History of Religions

Jan Hjärpe

12 Africa and America Revisited: A Critical Analysis of Widengren’s Comparative Method

Daniel Andersson

Part 5: Manichaeism and Gnosticism

13 Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule

Einar Thomassen

14 Geo Widengren and Manichaeism

Chiara O. Tommasi

Part 6: Postscript

15 Geo Widengren as Researcher and Public Intellectual: A Meta-Reflection

Göran Larsson

Appendix A: Letters between Raffaele Pettazzoni and Geo Widengren (1948–1959)

Appendix B: Letters between Helmer Ringgren, Geo Widengren and Ugo Bianchi (1959–1970)

Geo Widengren’s Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Göran Larsson, Ph.D., is Professor of Religious Studies and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Gothenburg. Larsson’s main research is on Islam and Muslims, but he has also published on religion and the media, global conflicts, violent extremism and security studies, theory and method, with leading international publishers like Brill, Routledge, Ashgate, Springer and Equinox.

Contributors are Daniel Andersson, Giovanni Casadio, Clemens Cavallin, Göran Eidevall, Satoko Fujiwara, René Gothóni, Jan Hjärpe, Christer Hedin, Anders Hultgård, Tim Jensen, Albert de Jong, Einar Thomassen, Mihaela Timus, Chiara Ombretta Tommasi.