For a secular return to the sacred: Raffaele Pettazzoni's last statement on the name of the science of religions
@article{Severino2015ForAS, title={For a secular return to the sacred: Raffaele Pettazzoni's last statement on the name of the science of religions}, author={Valerio S. Severino}, journal={Religion}, year={2015}, volume={45}, pages={1 - 23} }
Abstract In 1959, the president of the International Association for the History of Religions, Raffaele Pettazzoni, wrote the last notes of his life. Among these documents, there is a group of unpublished remarks: an attempt to outline the possible task of a unified study of religion, bridging the two dimensions – historical and phenomenological – as two facets of a single and general science of religions named ‘sacrology’. Pettazzoni had this new name in mind to meet the challenge of the…
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