Documenting the history of religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950-1970): letters, reports and requests across the Iron Curtain

"The present volume offers a new account of the activities of International Association for the History of Religions during the Cold War. By focusing on the IAHR membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1957, the book reconsiders the impact of the Iron Curtain. Valerio Severino examin...

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Auteur principal: Severino, Valerio Salvatore 1972- (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
Dans: Studies in the history of religions (volume 172)
Année: 2021
Collection/Revue:Studies in the history of religions volume 172
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B International Association for the History of Religions / Magyar Tudományos Akadémia / Religion / Histoire
RelBib Classification:AA Sciences des religions
KBK Europe de l'Est
Sujets non-standardisés:B International Association for the History of Religions
B Religions History 20th century Sources
Accès en ligne: Table des matières
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Résumé:"The present volume offers a new account of the activities of International Association for the History of Religions during the Cold War. By focusing on the IAHR membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1957, the book reconsiders the impact of the Iron Curtain. Valerio Severino examines unpublished international correspondences, bureaucratic requests, confidential reports submitted by the delegates after their participation in congresses in Western Europe and the USA. Facts and insights about leading Hungarian scholars and internal processes of the IAHR are reconstructed in detail. Through doing so, Severino is able to evaluate the permeability of the Iron Curtain, the exchange of knowledge between the opposing blocs, the ideological control exercised through the Academy and the ways in which academics subjected their work to this obligation"--
Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index
ISBN:900445926X