Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Comparative Religion Scholars in Debate: Theology vs. History in Letters Addressed to Ugo Bianchi
Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Giovanni Casadio [+]
University of Salerno
CASADIO GIOVANNI is Professor Ordinarius of History of
Religions at the University of Salerno. Past member of the executive
committee of the European Association for the Study of religions
(EASR) as Publications officer. Member of the editorial board of the
second edition of Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion. Member of the
advisory board of several international series and journals (including
Archaeus and Vergilius). 109 publications on ancient Mediterranean
religions and religious historiography. Books: Storia del culto di Dioniso
XIV in Argolide (1994), Vie gnostiche all’ immortalità (1997), Il vino dell’ anima (1999), Ugo Bianchi: Una vita per la storia delle religioni (ed. 2002).
Description
This chapter discusses the comparative-historical method, which is to develop comparisons between religious phenomena (comparative) while accounting for their developments within particular contexts through time and space (historical). Ugo Bianchi, an Italian Historian (1922-1995) said that 'The notion of religion that emerges from the continued comparison of new and varied historical materials is an analogical notion.' This chapter focusses on correspondence between Bianchi and two prominent American scholars of religion.