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By Horst Junginger

ISBN-10: 9004163263

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The learn of faith below the spell of fascism has now not acquired due recognition. One cause of the obvious loss of curiosity used to be the political involvement of many historians of religions. between those that had reliable cause to go away the period of fascism untouched, we discover in demand figures within the box. one other difficulty to interpreting the prior impartially has been the relationship with spiritual and different worldviews which render old bills within the learn of faith an problematic subject. The articles during this quantity offer proof of the good complexity of the issues concerned. Laying the basis in lots of instances, they shed new mild on a dismal and poorly-lit period of the tutorial learn of faith in Europe.

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But contrary to this presumption, historians of religions appeared to be less antisemitic compared to other groups of intellectuals, for instance Christian theologians who were concerned with the “Jewish problem” for religious reasons. This is only surprising at Àrst glance. Over the course of their alienation from Christianity, historians of religions lost the awareness of the precarious position of the Jews in the Christian salvation plan. Judaism had ceased to be a religious problem for them.

For Winkler’s failed attempt to come to Brussels, see H. Junginger, “Ein Kapitel Religionswissenschaft während der NS-Zeit: Hans Alexander Winkler (1900–1945),” Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 2 (1995), pp. 137–161, here p. 150f. 19 Note of the Reich Ministry of Science and Education on September 6, 1935, Federal Archives Berlin, R 4901, 2966, fol. 111. 20 Another illustration of a direct effect of Germany’s military aggression on the study of religion in Europe was the prevention of the Àrst Polish chair for the history of religions, proposed at the University of Warsaw for the academic year 1939–1940.

P. 144. Cf. idem, The sword of the Archangel. Fascist ideology in Romania (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1990), esp. p. 82, p. , pp. 143–147, and p. 155f. 26 Bryan S. Rennie, Reconstructing Eliade. Making sense of religion (New York: Albany, 1996), p. 160f. Rennie argues that the Iron Guard became violently antisemitic only after Eliade had left the country. ”28 How is it possible to arrive at such contradictory conclusions as exempliÀed by the quoted statements? First of all, it should be emphasized that any teleological or retrospective interpretation of history is misleading.

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