“IPSI SUNT MULTI [...] ET FACIUNT MAGNUM STREPITUM”: STORICI DELLE RELIGIONI, ETNOLOGI E SCIAMANI IN LO SCIAMANESIMO PRIMA E DOPO MIRCEA ELIADE DI GIOVANNI CASADIO (ROMA: IL CALAMO, 2014) Cover Image
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“IPSI SUNT MULTI [...] ET FACIUNT MAGNUM STREPITUM”: STORICI DELLE RELIGIONI, ETNOLOGI E SCIAMANI IN LO SCIAMANESIMO PRIMA E DOPO MIRCEA ELIADE DI GIOVANNI CASADIO
“IPSI SUNT MULTI [...] ET FACIUNT MAGNUM STREPITUM”: STORICI DELLE RELIGIONI, ETNOLOGI E SCIAMANI IN LO SCIAMANESIMO PRIMA E DOPO MIRCEA ELIADE DI GIOVANNI CASADIO (ROMA: IL CALAMO, 2014)

Author(s): Testa Alessandro
Subject(s): Comparative Studies of Religion
Published by: Romanian Assoc. for the History of Religions & Inst. for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy
Keywords: Mircea Eliade; Giovanni Casadio; Shamanism; ritual; methods and theories in the study or religion

Summary/Abstract: Through an assessment of Giovanni Casadio’s book about Mircea Eliade’s intellectual legacy to the anthropology and history of shamanism, this article intends to problematise some of the most recent theoretical and methodological issues, as well as recapitulate a number of “classical” research questions about shamanism and its scientific study. Numerous sources, authors and scholarly traditions are mentioned and discussed, obviously keeping as the main point of reference both Eliade’s magnum opus and Casadio’s critical contribution. Special attention is given to the Italian/European scholarship.

  • Issue Year: XX/2016
  • Issue No: __
  • Page Range: 483-498
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Italian