Axis Mundi in the Tropics: Uses and Abuses of Eliade's Phenomenology of Religion in the Schelean Maya Studies
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Axis Mundi in the Tropics: Uses and Abuses of Eliade's Phenomenology of Religion in the Schelean Maya Studies
Original language description
Ever since the 1980s, the Maya Studies became seeped with influence of the theories of Mircea Eliade. The article traces the origins and contexts of this influence and evaluates both the results it yielded and the problems it brought to the discipline. First of all, it shows that the way Eliade's influence has been brought to the Maya Studies (mainly via the Maya Cosmos monograph) is seriously problematic, since it does not discuss or even acknowledge the Eliadian origins of its main concepts. This lack of theoretical reflection opened the door to simplifications and misunderstandings, which spread through the discipline. At the same time, the fundamentally empirical character of Maya Studies practically prevented any deeper conceptual discussion of Maya religion. The article therefore calls for a much needed theoretical and methodological self-reflection of Maya Studies and its concepts related to ancient Maya spirituality.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09685S" target="_blank" >GA17-09685S: The image of indigenous cultures in the context of contemporary Western alternative spirituality, society, and science</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ethnologia actualis [online]
ISSN
1339-7877
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
57-80
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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