The Nineteenth-Century Romance with "Mysteries": Literary Detectives and Historians of Religion
Unlike the classical sources, nineteenth-century historians of religion characterized certain Hellenistic initiatory cults as "Mystery Religions." This was also the century in which the literary genre of mysteries (i.e., detective stories) developed (e.g., E. A. Poe). Was the nineteenth-ce...
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| Language: | English |
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Palacky University Olomouc
2021
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e-Rhizome
Year: 2021, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-45 |
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| Summary: | Unlike the classical sources, nineteenth-century historians of religion characterized certain Hellenistic initiatory cults as "Mystery Religions." This was also the century in which the literary genre of mysteries (i.e., detective stories) developed (e.g., E. A. Poe). Was the nineteenth-century development of literary mysteries and the contemporaneous characterization of some Hellenistic initiatory practices by historians of religion also as "mysteries," especially, those characterized by R. Reitzenstein as "reading mysteries" (Lesemysterien), coincidental? I suggest that mystery novels may be read for insights into the historical and/or cultural... |
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| ISSN: | 2571-242X |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5507/rh.2021.002 |