Ernesto de Martino: the anthropological “vocation” of a religions historian
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https://doi.org/10.5380/cra.v24i1.86773Keywords:
Ernesto De Martino, historical-religious comparison, history of religions, historicism, anthropology of religionsAbstract
To elaborate the concept of the crisis of presence, Martino must submit the Christian paradigm of original sin and the finitude of human history to a systematic and differentiated comparison. From a philosophical perspective, this operation enables him to make existentialism and historicism compatible, while from a historical viewpoint, it permits him to contemplate the diverse religious forms of salvation from the immanence of cultural transcendence through values. Thus, awareness of the crisis and salvation opens a path to anthropological questions about the possible ends of cultures and the implicit entropy of thought.
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