Academic Newsletter
RELIGIONS Spring 2010

pp. 176
with 29 b/w illustrations
Euro 22,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40864-7

L’ANTROPOLOGIA RELIGIOSA
DI FRONTE ALLE ESPRESSIONI DELLA CULTURA
E DELL'ARTE

Acts of the international congress in honor of Julien Ries
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, February the 19th 2008
Edited by Natale Spineto

After this congress, the Catholic University of Milan decided to create the Julien Ries Archive for Symbolic Anthropology to which the author donated the original versions of his works, of his personal archive and of that part of his library dedicated to this subject.
The Anthropology of Religions is a new discipline that becomes an operational tool for scholars of Philosophy, Political Science, Art History, and many other sciences. Those who took part in this congress personally tested, within the fields where they operate, some elements taken from this Anthropology of Religion outlined by Ries.

TRATTATO DI ANTROPOLOGIA DEL SACRO (TAS)
Directed by Julien Ries and co-directed by Lawrence E. Sullivan

With the Trattato di Antropologia del Sacro, Julien Ries together with over fifty professors from all over the world, contributes to the birth of a new Anthropology of Religion contaminated with History of Religions, History, History of Culture, Prehistory and Paleoanthropology, Ethnology, Sociology.

Complete Plan of the TAS series:

  1. LE ORIGINI DELL’HOMO RELIGIOUS
  2. L’UOMO INDOEUROPEO E IL SACRO
  3. LE CIVILTÀ DEL MEDITERRANEO E IL SACRO
  4. IL CREDENTE NELLE RELIGIONI
    EBRAICA, MUSULMANA E CRISTIANA
  5. CRISI, ROTTURE E CAMBIAMENTI
  1. CULTURE E RELIGIONI INDIGENE IN
    AMERICA CENTRALE E
    MERIDIONALE
  2. CULTURE E RELIGIONI DEGLI
    INDIANI D’AMERICA
  3. GIAPPONE. GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE
  4. CINA. GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE
  5. METAMORFOSI DEL SACRO

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pp. 354
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ISBN: 978-88-16-40905-7

TAS- Vol. 10
METAMORFOSI DEL SACRO
ACCULTURAZIONE, INCULTURAZIONE,
SINCRETISMO, FONDAMENTALISMO

Directed by Julien Ries

The TAS comes, with its 10th volume, to the conclusion of the first edition directed by Julien Ries in collaboration with Lawrence Sullivan.
This volume, despite dealing with various historical contexts, addresses the topic of the metamorphosis of the sacred as a more and more relevant element in the knowledge of our time. The four phenomena around which this volume revolves – acculturation, enculturation, syncretism and fundamentalism – document the changes in shape, nature and structure that the experience of the sacred can undergo throughout its historical and cultural development.


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pp. 320
Euro 42,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40487-8

TAS - Vol. 9
GIAPPONE
GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE

Directed by Julien Ries

This volume traces the essential coordinates of Japanese anthropology of religion. It speaks about the places of the sacred, about the importance of the human body and of its energies.
The starting point is Shinto and the explanation of the core terms related to it, such as Shinto, Kami, Tatari and Sumi. Then, the discussion passes on to Buddhism, arrived in Japan in 552, to those hybrids born from the cross-fertilisation between Shinto and Buddhism and to the other two main forms of Buddhism arrived from China: Amidism and Zen.


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pp. 256
Euro 42,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40814-2

TAS - Vol. 8
CINA
GRANDI RELIGIONI E CULTURE NELL’ESTREMO ORIENTE

Directed by Julien Ries

This book offers a comprehensive view of the sacred in China and deepens some of its core aspects first dealing with China’s great traditions – Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism – and then analysing the contributions of Christians (22 million) and Muslims (18 million) and of the many ethnic minorities that have their own characteristics and sacred places diversely intertwined with the predominant Chinese tradition.
The first part of this book is about the holy places such as the mountain – dominant symbol of the Chinese tradition; the second part is about the other rituals available that contribute to making the sacred omnipresent.

Julien Ries
COLLECTED WORKS
12 volumes

The first volume (tome 1 and tome 2) is about the relationship between Christianity and the other religions and the themes of dialogue and interculturalism. Volume II, III and IV are dedicated to the fundamental Anthropology of Religion; volume V and VI include Religious Science and Comparative Religion too.
In 2010 and 2011, special volumes on Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, Manichaeism, Mithraism, Osirism and Eastern doctrines on sovereignty, will be published.

Complete plan of the Collected Works by Julien Ries (* published volumes)

  1. CRISTIANESIMO, RELIGIONI
    E CULTURE
    Tomo 1: I CRISTIANI E LE RELIGIONI
    DAGLI ATTI DEGLI APOSTOLI
    AL VATICANO II *
    Tomo 2: INCONTRO E DIALOGO
    CRISTIANESIMO, RELIGIONI E
    CULTURE *
  2. L’UOMO E IL SACRO NELLA STORIA
    DELL’UMANITÀ *
  3. L’UOMO RELIGIOSO E
    LA SUA ESPERIENZA DEL SACRO *
  4. LE COSTANTI DEL SACRO
    Tomo 1: SIMBOLO *
    Tomo 2: MITO E RITO *
  5. LA SCIENZA DELLE RELIGIONI
    STORIA, STORIOGRAFIA, PROBLEMI E METODI *
  6. LA STORIA COMPARATA DELLE
    RELIGIONI E L’ERMENEUTICA *
  1. RELIGIONI DELL’ANTICO ORIENTE
    Tomo 1: IL CULTO DI MITHRA
    DALL’INDIA VEDICA AI CONFINI
    DELL’IMPERO ROMANO
    Tomo 2: ZARATHUSTRA E
    LA RELIGIONE MAZDEA
  2. RELIGIONI DEL VICINO ORIENTE
    ANTICO
    Tomo 1: OSIRISMO E
    MONDO ELLENISTICO
    L'INCONTRO TRA LA RELIGIONE
    EGIZIA E DEL PENSIERO GRECO
    Tomo 2: TEOLOGIE REGALI
    IN EGITTO E NEL VICINO ORIENTE ANTICO ED ELLENIZZAZIONE
    DEI CULTI ORIENTALI
  3. GNOSTICISMO E MANICHEISMO *
  4. LA CHIESA DI MANI
    DOTTRINE E CULTO
  5. CORSI
    Tomo 1: INDUISMO
    Tomo 2: BUDDHISMO
    Tomo 3: ISLAM
  6. MORTE E SOPRAVVIVENZA
    NELLE GRANDI RELIGIONI

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ISBN: 978-88-16-40899-9

Julien Ries
COLLECTED WORKS - Volume I, Tome 2
INCONTRO E DIALOGO
CRISTIANESIMO, RELIGIONI E CULTURE


Ries traces the history of the encounter between Christianity and the other religions, from St. Paul’s preaching until nowadays, focusing on the role played by the Humanists, on the characteristics of the Catholic missions and on the innovations of the II Vatican Council. The topic of the interreligious dialogue leads him to the analysis of those contemporary phenomena such as syncretism and the new religious movements, the pluralism of creeds, enculturation and acculturation.
Throughout a series of articles, written with the purpose of engaging in a dialogue with the younger generations, he addresses some of the most urgent matters for religious modern men, as the topic of the relationship between religion and culture, the issues related to theology, the tolerance, the preaching of the Gospels, the revolution of the ’68 and its heritage.


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pp. 224
Euro 35,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40850-0

Julien Ries
Collected Works - Volume VI
LA STORIA COMPARATA DELLE RELIGIONI
E L’ERMENEUTICA


Julien Ries sets out by showing, through a historiographical close examination, how the issue of comparison has become more and more relevant and how the main historians have dealt with it. On the basis of their research, Anthropology of Religion intends to understand and convey the message brought by the homo religiosus throughout the millenniums and to outline the aspects of that relationship that involves men and the sacred and that expresses itself in the religious phenomena. The case of the symbols of the cross and of light, studied in their endless richness, eloquently demonstrates the modus operandi of Ries’ hermeneutic.

Raimon Panikkar
COLLECTED WORKS
12 volumes edited by Milena Carrara Pavan

This edition by Jaca Book is the author’s legacy in his organised and updated works, edited by Milena Carrara Pavan. They will be divided into 12 volumes of 16 tomes each, excluding the journals and the letters.
The Italian edition is therefore to be considered the original edition of the collected works (a Catalan edition is being publishes as well, starting from the Italian one). Each volume (and tome) comes with a new introduction on the genesis and contents of the works.

Complete plan of the Collected Works by Raimon Panikkar (* published volumes)

  1. MISTICA E SPIRITUALITÀ
    Tomo 1: MISTICA PIENEZZA DI VITA *
    Tomo 2: SPIRITUALITÀ, IL CAMMINO
    DELLA VITA
  2. RELIGIONE E RELIGIONI
  3. CRISTIANESIMO
  4. INDUISMO
    Tomo 1: I VEDA
    Tomo 2: IL DHARMA DELL’INDIA
  5. BUDDHISMO
  6. CULTURE E RELIGIONI IN DIALOGO
    Tomo 1: PLURALISMO E
    INTERCULTURALITÀ *
    Tomo 2: DIALOGO INTERCULTURALE E INTERRELIGIOSO
  1. INDUISMO E CRISTIANESIMO
  2. VISIONE TRINITARIA E
    COSMOTEANDRICA:
    DIO-UOMO-COSMO *
  3. MISTERO ED EUCARESTIA
    Tomo 1: MITO, SIMBOLO, CULTO *
    Tomo 2: FEDE, ERMENEUTICA,
    PAROLA
  4. FILOSOFIA E TEOLOGIA
  5. SECOLARITÀ SACRA
  6. SPAZIO, TEMPO E SCIENZA

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pp. 448
Euro 48,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40897-5

Raimon Panikkar
COLLECTED WORKS - Volume VI, Tome 1
PLURALISMO E INTERCULTURALITÀ
CULTURE E RELIGIONI IN DIALOGO


Despite the noble intension behind it, the global village syndrome is nevertheless the result of a colonial mentality.
“If on one hand we think we are right and the others are wrong, on the other one we think we are all suitable for a global village. Between these two extremes, the words pluralism and interculturality have become more and more apt to represent a third attitude, foundation to a universal understanding”.


pp. 240
DVD included
Euro 28,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40893-7

I MISTICI NELLE GRANDI TRADIZIONI
OMAGGIO A RAIMON PANIKKAR

Edited by Milena Carrara Pavan

This collection of works on the mystics of the different traditions springs from the homage to Raimon Panikkar wanted by many friends and scholars all over the world on the occasion of the congress of Venice in May 2008 to celebrate his 90th birthday. With this volume we would like to celebrate the mystics coming from different traditions and who, like Panikkar, looked for the Self, becoming this way a datum point for those who are still searching for it.
The book comes with a DVD of Panikkar’s Venice experience. A souvenir to all who took part into the congress and a gift to those who could not make it.

ENCICLOPEDIA DELLE RELIGIONI
The European thematic edition in 17 volumes directed by Mircea Eliade
from an original project by Ioan P. Couliano


Jaca Book had received from Mircea Eliade and Ioan Couliano the tables of contents to write an European thematic edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion formerly published by MacMillan.
Eliade and Couliano had maintained the original outlines reorganizing the single independent dictionaries.
Five volumes with cross-references and eleven volumes on religions and cultural areas (plus index).
The European edition (which is currently available in Italian) is edited by Dario M. Cosi, Luigi Saibene and Roberto Scagno.

Complete Plan of the Enciclopedia delle Religioni (*published volumes)

  1. OGGETTO E MODALITÀ
    DELLA CREDENZA RELIGIOSA *
  2. IL RITO. OGGETTI, ATTI, CERIMONIE *
  3. L’ESPERIENZA. VITA RELIGIOSA
    INDIVIDUALE E COLLETTIVA *
  4. IL PENSIERO.
    CONCEZIONI E SIMBOLI *
  5. LO STUDIO DELLE RELIGIONI.
    DISCIPLINE E AUTORI *
  6. EBRAISMO *
  7. CRISTIANESIMO *
  8. ISLAM *
  1. INDUISMO *
  2. BUDDHISMO *
  3. RELIGIONI DEL MEDITERRANEO E
    DEL VICINO ORIENTE ANTICO *
  4. RELIGIONI DELL’EURASIA *
  5. RELIGIONI DELL’ESTREMO
    ORIENTE *
  6. RELIGIONI DELL’AFRICA *
  7. RELIGIONI DELL’OCEANIA
  8. RELIGIONI DELLE AMERICHE
  9. INDICI

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pp. 332
Euro 140,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-41014-5

ENCICLOPEDIA DELLE RELIGIONI - Volume 14
RELIGIONI DELL'AFRICA
Directed by Mircea Eliade

This volume (about 500 columns, 70 entries), dedicated to those phenomena linked to religion in Africa, has a very diverse nature due to the peculiar historical vicissitudes of this continent.
As Africa is the point of connection between many native religions and the great missionary religions coming from abroad, the table of contents of this work alternates, in alphabetical order, entries relative to the entire continent or to parts of it, to more specific entries dedicated to monotheistic religions in Africa and to proper African religions. Other entries instead deal with the main gods worshipped by the African population, and with the biographies of many prophets and founders of millenarian creeds or of independent Churches that pinned down the religious history of this continent in a very peculiar way. Finally, there are a few voices dedicated to those African phenomena and ideas, spread all over the religious world (Soul, Iconography, Magic, Masks, Music, Sovereignty, Witchcraft, Theatre, Trickster) and a few entries that describe those religious phenomena that are exclusively African as the Cults of grievance.


24×30 cm
Hardbound with jacket
with 315 colour illustrations
pp. 242
Euro 80,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-60420-9

Gérard-Henry Baudry
SIMBOLI CRISTIANI DELLE ORIGINI
I-VII SECOLO


This work is an introduction to the world of symbols of the early age of Christianity until the 7th century, considering each “visual” symbol and not those expressed only in oral or literary form. The volume deals with all those symbols connected to daily and social life as well as the relationship between nature and cosmos. While is inserted into already-existing cultures, Christianity develops and transforms their symbols.
The works of art and the symbols mentioned in this volume and reproduced in full colour make up probably the widest iconographical synthesis for such an introductive text.


pp. 224
Euro 18,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40706-0

Davide Domenici
I LINGUAGGI DEL POTERE
ARTE E PROPAGANDA NELL’ANTICA MESOAMERICA


In the Mesoamerican world, where written communication was a privilege granted to a small intellectual elite, most public communications – political and religious – happened through art. Most of the works of art were produced to glorify the governors’ power, a kind of power that was absolute and drenched with holiness.
An archaeological research on the field, historical data and the urge for a theoretical clarification are intertwined in this book which, thanks to its immediacy and accessibility, is also a valuable introduction to the great historical adventure of Mesoamerica.


pp. 224
Euro 20,00
ISBN: 978-88-16-40754-9

Michela Craveri
VOCI E CANTI DELLA CIVILTÀ MAYA

This book is a journey through the Mayas’ main poetry books, starting from the creation of man and the universe, to lyrical poems, to theatre, prophetic books, historical narrations and prayers that the Mayas, still nowadays, sing to their gods.
The depth of the symbolic universe and the peculiar rhetorical expressions testify the creativity of the Mayan culture and their ability of renewal and conservation despite the cultural and political atmosphere of oppression they live in.




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