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Narrating the Past and the Future: The Position of the religions orientales and the mystères païens in the Evolutionary Histories of Religion of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy

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In their grand narratives on the ancient history of religions, the Belgian historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and his French colleague and correspondent , Alfred Loisy (1857-1940) both assigned a prominent place to the so-called pagan mystery religions. This paper seeks to identify the specific theories of religion and the deeper motivations underpinning Cumont's and Loisy's historiographical construction of the mystery cults as a distinct type of religion within their evolutionary accounts of the history of religions. Through a comparative analysis of their rich correspondence (1908-1940) and a selection of their publications, we demonstrate how their historical studies of the religious transformations in the Roman Empire, their in-depth dialogues in the troubled times in which they lived, and their philosophical views on the overall history and future of religion, were in fact mutually constitutive.

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Histoire Religions
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hal-02171502 , version 1 (02-07-2019)

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Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet. Narrating the Past and the Future: The Position of the religions orientales and the mystères païens in the Evolutionary Histories of Religion of Franz Cumont and Alfred Loisy. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2018, 20 (1), pp.157-182. ⟨10.1515/arege-2018-0010⟩. ⟨hal-02171502⟩
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