Article: RELIGION AFTER RELIGION: GERSHOM SCHOLEM, MIRCEA ELIADE, AND HENRY CORBIN AT ERANOS.(Review)

RELIGION AFTER RELIGION: GERSHOM SCHOLEM, MIRCEA ELIADE, AND HENRY CORBIN AT ERANOS. By Steven M. Wasserstrom. Princeton: Princeton University, 1999. Pp. vi + 368. $65; $19.95.

This book reflects the labors of an intensive study of a formative period in the development of the history of religions. For this reason alone it is worthy of consideration by anyone seeking to become more familiar with some of the major players who have contributed to the modern study of religion.

Wasserstrom's scope is comprehensive yet concise. It is comprehensive in its survey of three very different thinkers: Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the famous expert on the Kabbalah; ...

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