Hermeneutics in History: Mircea Eliade, Joachim Wach, and the Science of Religions
November 3-4, 2006
The University of Chicago
Divinity School
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Paper Titles/Participants
"Joachim Wach's Unfinished Project"
abstract
Gregory D. Alles, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies,
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD.
"Two Romanians in Exile in Post-World
War II Paris and the Dilemmas of Identity: Mircea Eliade and Eugne
Ionesco." abstract
Matei Calinescu, University of Indiana at Bloomington
"The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of
the Eliadean Text"
(A French Contribution to the Critical Theory and Discourses on
Religions)
abstract
Daniel Dubuisson, Docteur ès Lettres, Directeur de recherche au
CNRS, Directeur de l'Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion
(CNRS/Lille3)
"Extent and limits of Eliade's interest in
Western Esoteric Currents" abstract
Antoine Faivre, professor emeritus of History of western esoteric
currents in modern and contemporary Europe, Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne.
"Eliade: A Reappraisal" abstract
Carlo Ginzburg, Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance
Studies, UCLA.
"Interwar Bucharest in the Novels of Mircea
Eliade" abstract
Moshe Idel, Professor, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty
of Humanities, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
"Joachim Wach and German Constructions
of Religious History"
Hans G. Kippenberg, Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt abstract
"The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian
Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion"
abstract
Bryan S. Rennie, Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion, Westminster
College, PA
"Eliade's History of Religious Ideas"
abstract
Jonathan Z. Smith, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor
of the Humanities in the College, University of Chicago
"South-East Europe and the idea of the history
of religions for Mircea Eliade" abstract
Florin Turcanu
"Conversion Culture:
Joachim Wach and Religionswissenschaft in the Weimar Republic"
abstract
Steven M. Wasserstrom, The Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic
Studies and the Humanities, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
