Documenting the history of religions in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950-1970)
Subtitle: letters, reports and requests across the Iron Curtain
By: by Valerio S. Severino
Series: Numen book series; Texts and sources in the history of religions -- volume 172; Studies in the history of religions -- v. 172.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9789004459267; 9789004459274
Subjects: Religions; Sources; History; International Association for the History of Religions
Description: "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 Valerio Severino examines unpublished international correspondences, bureaucratic requests, confidential reports submitted by the delegates after their participation in congresses in Western Europe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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.