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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
In The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino: Italian Perspectives on
Apocalypse and Rebirth in the Modern Study of Religion, Flavio A.
Geisshuesler offers a comprehensive study of one of Italy's most
colorful historians of religions. The book inserts de Martino's
dramatic life trajectory within the intellectual climate and the
socio-political context of his age in order to offer a fresh
perspective on the evolution of the discipline of religious studies
during the 20th century. Demonstrating that scholarship on religion
was animated by moments of fear of the apocalypse, it brings de
Martino's perspective into conversation with Mircea Eliade, Claude
Levi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz in order to recover an Italian
approach that promises to redeem religious studies as a relevant
and revitalizing field of research in the contemporary climate of
crisis.
Eldon Jay Epp's second volume of collected essays consists of
articles previously published during 2006-2017. All treat aspects
of the New Testament textual criticism, but focus on historical and
methodological issues relevant to constructing the earliest
attainable text of New Testament writings. More specific emphasis
falls upon the nature of textual transmission and the text-critical
process, and heavily on the criteria employed in establishing that
earliest available text. Moreover, textual grouping is examined at
length, and prominent is the current approach to textual variants
not approved for the constructed text, for they have stories to
tell regarding theological, ethical, and real-life issues as the
early Christian churches sought to work out their own status,
practices, and destiny.
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