Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an “All-Round Historian of Religion”

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish scholar Geo Widengren (1907–1996) was a towering figure on the international landscape of the history of religions. This essay reads Widengren as a forgotten classic, i.e., an author whose works have ceased to be read by contemporary students and scholars. Widengr...

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Main Author: Stausberg, Michael 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 329-341
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Widengren, Geo 1907-1996 / Science of Religion / Methodology / Phenomenology of religion / Comparative religion / Philology
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B history of the study of religions
B evolutionism
B Geo Widengren
B Philology
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