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

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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