Reconsidering Mircea Eliade: Politics of Religious Studies and the Morphology of Religion

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July Evening Seminar at Nichibunken

Upcoming event at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan

Nichibunken Evening Seminar on Japanese Studies (209^th meeting), July 7, 2016 (Thursday), 4:30 P.M – 6:00 P.M.
Speaker: Christopher I. Lehrich

Title: Reconsidering Mircea Eliade: Politics of Religious Studies and the Morphology of Religion

Commentator: Jun’ichi Isomae, Professor, Nichibunken
Language: English
Place: Seminar Room 2, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 3-2 Oeyama-cho, Goryo, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192
URL: <http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/>
Abstract:
Mircea Eliade’s scholarship has gone in and out of fashion, yet it continues to influence current discourse on religion. This lecture will focus on the context of Eliade’s reception and the principal criticisms of his work. The speaker will also discuss the intellectual-historical origins of Eliade’s project. Through an examination of the principles of Goethe’s morphology, he will argue for the possibility of a rigorous reconstruction of Eliade’s approach, and weigh some of its analytical and synthetic potential. Professor Isomae will then present some comments on the history of Eliade scholarship in Japan and its impact on religious studies there.
About the speaker: 
Christopher I. Lehrich is author of The Occult Mind and The Language of Demons and Angels, and editor of On Teaching Religion: Essays by Jonathan Z. Smith. He is presently co-editing Language and Religion for De Gruyter, and arranging the new translation of Claude Lévi-Strauss's La pensée sauvage. His current research examines the religious semiotics of western art music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.