![]() ![]() Schmidt’s ‘stupendous learning and industry’. The sacred from the Stone Age to the present and back again. Eliade, 1920s–1980s: From Romanian post-truth to American New Age. Neither with you nor without you: Mircea Eliade. 1950: The foundation of the IAHR and the defeat of science. Italy, 1920s–1930s: Pettazzoni’s two-fold gamble. Italy, 1910s–1950s: Pettazzoni’s revolutionary rebuttal. Schmidt’s legacy: The strategic rescue of Andrew Lang’s High Gods as an early home run for post-truth. Austria and Switzerland, 1900s–1950s: Schmidt’s apologetic history of religion. Germany, 1890s: ‘Cultural circles’, geography and reactionary politics. Netherlands, 1930s: van der Leeuw’s re-confessionalization. Netherlands, 1870s: Chantepie’s theological reaction. Netherlands, 1860s: Tiele’s (tentative) science of religion. ![]() ![]() Birth certificate(s): HoR’s proximate origins. The end of the Victorian science of religion. Smith’s heretical accommodationism, 1880s. A scientific theology? William Robertson Smith’s ‘dual life’. ![]() The Descent of Man, 1871: Degrees, not kinds. The Origin of Species, 1859: Breaking the chain of being. The threat of a scientific and comparative study of religion. Triumph and dissolution of comparison: James George Frazer. Enter comparative mythology: Friedrich Max Müller. Rationality as cumulative by- product of comparison: From Jean Bodin to Edward Burnett Tylor. A preliminary note on imperialism, postmodernism and science. Preface: Ghosts, Post- truth Despair and Brandolini’s Law. ![]()
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