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Předkřesťanská náboženství severních Indoevropanů. Tradice Keltů, Germánů a Baltů v kritické perspektivě humanitních věd
| Title in English | The Pre-Christian Religions of the Northern Indo-Europeans. The Traditions of the Celts, Germanics and Balts in a Critical Perspective of the Humanities |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The publication offers analytical insights into the research of pre-Christian religions of the northernmost Indo-European groups - Celts, Germanics, and Balts. It presents current knowledge about old pantheons, rituals and mythologies of these peoples from the perspectives of the scientific disciplines that are usually involved in their reconstruction, i.e. archaeology, philology and ethnology. Central attention is paid to the interpretation of problems that researchers usually face here, and the possibilities and limits of their solution, determined on the one hand by insufficient information base, on the other hand by the framework of scientific discourse. The publication also introduces into a brief history of the research in these fields, whose beginnings are mostly connected with the Romanticism of the 18th - 19th centuries, but in some regions they can be traced back as far as to the period of Renaissance humanism several centuries earlier. In this context there are emphasized ideological motivations and aims, which shaped - or eventually still shape - the images of these religions in both science and popular culture. |
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