A systematic study on the development of religious studies in Romania

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07145
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Religious studies
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University of Science
• Principal Investigator: Okayama Fumiaki 北海道科学大学, 高等教育支援センター, 講師 (10632218)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 宗教史学 / 宗教現象学 / ルーマニア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research clarified the following matters on the process of construction of religious studies in Romania. Romanian religious studies were built by Mircea Eliade accepting Italian religious studies in the 1920s. Eliade tried to accept R. Pettazzoni's history of religions, but they have different view on archetypes and the sacred. Eliade had also actively accepted the methodology of V. Macchioro's mysticism study that tried to elucidate the universal form of religion based on religious experiences. It is considered that the academic linkage with Macchioro may have been the basis for Eliade to approach phenomenology of religion.

Free Research Field

宗教学