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Author Geisshuesler, Flavio A., author.

Title The life and work of Ernesto de Martino : Italian perspectives on apocalypse and rebirth in the modern study of religion / by Flavio A. Geisshuesler.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Edition Book edition.
Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 in order to offer a fresh perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de Martino's perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of crisis"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965.
De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965. (OCoLC)fst00034089
Religion -- Study and teaching -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropology of religion -- Italy.
Religion and sociology -- Italy.
Religion historians -- Italy -- Biography.
Anthropology of religion. (OCoLC)fst01738842
Religion and sociology. (OCoLC)fst01093858
Religion historians. (OCoLC)fst01093875
Religion -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01093807
Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
RELIGION / History.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Geisshuesler, Flavio A. Life and work of Ernesto de Martino Book edition. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004457706 (DLC) 2021008718
ISBN 9789004457720 (electronic book)
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