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Periodical: Zalmoxis

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Zalmoxis.
Revista de studii religioase / Revue des Etudes Religieuses / Etudes Religieuses.
1938--1942 Irregular
Bucharest, Romania and Paris, France. Language: French, Romanian.
Editor: Mircea Eliade.
Publisher: Cartea Romaneasca, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geunther.
1/1, 1938-1942.
3 volumes, 1938, 1939, 1940-1942.

This is a notable journal because of the early articles by Eliade and contributions by Raffaele Pettazzoni, Jean Przyluski, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Jean Coman, and others. The journal published the related Cahiers Zalmoxis of lengthy monographs by authors published in the journal. The volumes have been republished in Romanian by Eugen Ciurtin (Bucharest: Polirom, 2000).

Other Sources:ZDB: Heidelberg UB; Freiburg Rumän. Inst; Munchen BSB; Munchen UB; Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str.; Princeton Theological Seminary; University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies; BNF; Bibliotheque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne; Duke University; University of Chicago; University of Pittsburgh; NYPL.
Issues:Zalmoxis V3 1940-1942 Partial
Claude-Generated Themes:   Zalmoxis: Revue des etudes religieuses is Mircea Eliade's scholarly journal of the history of religions (1938-1942), named for the Dacian god Zalmoxis. Its sampled pages are comparative-religion and folklore scholarship - the Iranian myth of the first human couple (Gayomart, Mashya and Mashyana) from the Zoroastrian creation story, a solar-lunar creator-hymn, ethnographic tales of water-spirits and metamorphosis. The machine digest's 'spiritualism' and 'occult' signals point to what Eliade studied (a folklore 'esprit des eaux'; the alchemy and magic of his early research), not to anything the review espoused. It belongs under comparative religion and the history of religions, engaging Zoroastrian myth and the study of alchemy and magic as objects of analysis rather than practice - a scholarly title at the edge of the collection's occult remit.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Perennial Philosophy and Comparative Religion