Narrating the Past and the Future
The Position of the religions orientales and the mystères païens in the Evolutionary Histories of Religion of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19476238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annelies Lannoy (0000-0002-1776-9698, Ghent University), Carole Bonnet (0000-0003-2770-7914, Canadian Heritage) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-182 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1436-3038 • E-ISSN: 1868-8888 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/arege-2018-0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2885062804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In their grand narratives on the ancient history of religions, the Belgian historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868 – 1947) and his French colleague and correspondent, Alfred Loisy (1857 – 1940) both assigned a prominent place to the so-called pagan mystery religions. This paper seeks to identify the specific theories of religion and the deeper motivations underpinning Cumont’s and Loisy’s historiographical construction of the mystery cults as a distinct type of religion within their evolutionary accounts of the history of religions. Through a comparative analysis of their rich correspondence (1908 – 1940) and a selection of their publications, we demonstrate how their historical studies of the religious transformations in the Roman Empire, their in-depth dialogues in the troubled times in which they lived, and their philosophical views on the overall history and future of religion, were in fact mutually constitutive
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Empire · Historiography · History of religions · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |