History of Religion

”Mircea Eliade e Julius Evola. Un rapporto difficile” (Nuova Storia Contemporanea, Firenze, XVI, no. 2, marzo-aprile 2012)

by Liviu Bordas

The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology

by Peeter Espak

2010, University of Tartu, PhD dissertation, 284 pp. 2010, University of Tartu, PhD dissertation, 284 pp.

Arnau de Vilanova en la Reforma protestant

by Sebastià Giralt

Faventia, 31 (2009), pp. 201-212.

Approach to the reception of Arnau de Vilanova’s religious work in the editorial world related to the Protestant... more Approach to the reception of Arnau de Vilanova’s religious work in the editorial world related to the Protestant Reformation, specially through Matthias Flacius Illyricus.

'St Francis of Assis and the making of Settlement Masculinity'

by Lucinda Matthews-Jones

in John H. Arnold and Sean Brady, eds., What is Masculinity? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).;

Danza e gesto nelle incisioni rupestri della Valcamonica

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

La Danza nella Preistoria

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

Danza nell'Età del Bronzo, in L'arte rupestre delle Alpi, Convegno Internazionale, Capodiponte, 21-24 ott. 2010, pp.130-132

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

The anthropomorphic figure, represented in different body positions, is already documented in Paleolithic iconography,... more The anthropomorphic figure, represented in different body positions, is already documented in Paleolithic iconography, but we can find circular and line dancing images in European archaeological finds only from the Neolithic period.
Among the Bronze Age dancing scenes, the image engraved on Cemmo 3 has a paradigmatic value, because it provides an explanation of the ritual use of the images in prehistory.
In late Bronze and early Iron Age the iconography of Alpine Area (Luine, Lac de Bourget-Gresine, Sesto Calende) shows an interesting group of dancing scenes that can be compared with similar finds from the nearby regional cultures.
The late “Urnfield” pottery in Southern France (Moras-en-Valloire, Mailhac, Vaucluse, Villement, etc.), has given us a significant number of dancing lines associated with a detailed corpus of cosmological symbols.
In this context, the comparison with Villanova and Etruscan iconography could allow a more complete understanding about the meaning of the prehistoric dance.

Danza nell'Età del Bronzo

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

Perpetual dance

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

Danza armata e realtà ctonia

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

“Gioco del Mondo” an Alpine “Hopscotch” Game and the Shaman Flight.

by Gaudenzio Ragazzi

The game called “Gioco del Mondo” (in other parts of Italy, "Campana" and "Settimana",... more The game called “Gioco del Mondo” (in other parts of Italy, "Campana" and "Settimana", "Marelle" in France, "Rayuela” in the Hispanic world, "Hopscotch" in Anglo-Saxon countries)
is among the most popular and played by children at any time and place.
This research analyzes the game starting from its two primary components, in which is preserved the memory of knowledge belonging to the prehistory of western though: the path and the rules.
The path of the game is a representation of the cosmos and its parts are elements of sacred geometry. In the antiquity such geometry is linked to the ritual of orientation of the temple and cities, as images of heaven on earth, to the regions of the sky.
There are two types of tracks (which we call A and B) that correspond to two ways of looking at the cosmos. The path A is built on a center (axis mundi, the point of origin of space and time, indivisible entity, God) and is composed of  the circle (symbol of the sky) and the square (symbol of the earth) divided into four parts by a cross oriented towards the cardinals points.
In path A prevails the vertical dimension. The movement from one frame to another is by repeated jumps on one foot. The jump is a symbol of flight from a cosmic dimension to another. The direction is vertical and upward. the movement from one frame to another is made with repeated jumps on one foot. The jump is a symbol of flight from a cosmic dimension to another. 
The path B, instead of the cross with right angles, has a diagonal cross.
As has been highlighted by the archaeoastronomical research, the diagonals passing through the center indicate the points on the horizon where the sun rises and sets on the day of the solstices.
Path B is crossed with jump alternating on one and two feet, perhaps recalling the steps of an ancient dance, symbolizing the annual journey of the sun in the sky.

Călătoriile adolescentului miop prin țara brahmanilor și fachirilor - partea I (Viața Românească, CVI, nr. 9-10, 2011)

by Liviu Bordas

Between the Devil's waters and the fall into History, or an alternate occount of Mircea Eliade's diopteries (International Journal on Humanistic Ideology, IV, no. 2, Autumn-Winter 2011)

by Liviu Bordas

Ultimele interviuri românești ale lui Eliade și "felix culpa" (Europa, Novi Sad, nr. 9, mai 2012)

by Liviu Bordas

Secțiunea ”Eliade în Serbia iugoslavă” are câteva completări față de versiunea din România literară (16 decembrie 2011).

În Addendum - primul interviu cu Petru Cârdu (tradus din limba sârbă de Adrian Costea) in versiune completa. In România literară a apărut fără partea introductivă și fără notele de subsol.

Ultimele interviuri românești ale lui Eliade și "felix culpa" (România literară, XLIII, nr. 50, 16 decembrie 2011)

by Liviu Bordas

Titlul articolului a fost modificat - in mod eronat - in redactia revistei.
Cf. http://liviu-bordas.blogspot.com/2011/12/ultimele-interviuri-romanesti-ale-lui.html

Les pommes d'amour des Hespérides (1). Le jardin aux portes du soir

by Philippe Matthey

A paraître dans: D. Barbu, P. Borgeaud, Y. Volokhine (éds.), Mondes clos. Cultures et jardins.

Résumé : Les Hespérides habitent aux confins du monde, dans un jardin que seuls les héros et les dieux sont... more Résumé : Les Hespérides habitent aux confins du monde, dans un jardin que seuls les héros et les dieux sont susceptibles d’atteindre. Cet article propose d’étudier de plus près la configuration de ce lieu particulier parmi tous ceux qui marquent les limites de la terre connue dans la géographique mythique grecque, entre Île des Bienheureux et pays des Hyperboréens. En suivant le motif des fameuses « pommes d’or » qui y sont gardées, on se rend compte qu’un véritable réseau mythologique semble pouvoir être tissé entre le jardin des Hespérides, le jardin d’Éden tel qu’il est réélaboré dans la tradition chrétienne dès l’Antiquité tardive, et les îles merveilleuses des mythologies celtiques du Moyen-Âge. La première partie de cette recherche en deux volets se concentre sur la double connotation que l’on peut attribuer aux pommes d’or, liées à la fois aux motifs de l’immortalité et de la séduction ou de l’envoûtement amoureux.

“Barques sur le Nil...”. La légende de Nectanébo comme récit de dé-légitimation

by Philippe Matthey

A paraître dans : C. Bonnet, A. Declercq, I. Slobodzianek (sous la direction de), Les représentations des dieux des autres, Supplemento a Mythos 2 (nuova serie).

Résumé:

On peut lire dans le Roman d’Alexandre et dans le Songe de Nectanébo deux scènes où le pharaon... more Résumé:

On peut lire dans le Roman d’Alexandre et dans le Songe de Nectanébo deux scènes où le pharaon Nectanébo obtient des visions de dieux juchés sur des bateaux : dans les deux cas, ces visions sont annonciatrices de la fin de son règne. Cet article tente de démontrer que ce genre d’image trouve probablement son origine dans une adaptation littéraire des processions festives égyptiennes, et dans une inversion de leur mise en scène au sein des Königsnovelle du Nouvel Empire, où les dieux apparaissent généralement pour légitimer la cause d’un pharaon.

Abstract:

Two scenes in the Alexander Romance and Nectanebo’s Dream show pharaoh Nectanebo experiencing visions of gods appearing on boats: the visions foreshadow in both cases the end of Nectanebo’s reign. This article attempts to demonstrate that this kind of image is a literary adaptation of ancient Egyptian
ritual processions, and a twist on the classic theme of the Pharaoh’s legitimation by the gods as it was invented in the New Kingdom Königsnovelle.

Engendering Purity and Impurity in Assyriological Studies. A Historiographical Overview (in preparation).

by M. Erica Couto-Ferreira

With Agnes Garcia-Ventura.

Religion

by Ulf Scharrer

Co-authored with Constanze Dittrich, Andreas Gruschke, Stefan Hauser,
in: Annegret Nippa (ed.), Kleines ABC des Nomadismus, Hamburg 2011, p. 180-181.

Missionaria o in pericolo di apostasia? Donne cattoliche e matrimoni misti nei dibattiti del Sant’Ufficio, in: Famiglia e religione nella prima eta` moderna. Saggi in onore di Silvana Seidel Menchi, Hg. Ciappelli, G., Luzzi, S., Rospocher, M. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011), 175-186.

by Cecilia Cristellon