Religione e Storia. Omaggio a Ugo Bianchi nel centenario della nascita

The volume originates from the international scientific conference held at the Catholic University (Milan, 13.10.2022) to honor the memory of the historian of religions Ugo Bianchi (13.10.1922-14.4.1995) on the centenary of his birth. The contributions of Italian and foreign scholars, collected there, reconstruct and cover - also on the basis of unpublished texts and documents emerging from the domestic scientific archive of the Roman Master - moments and aspects of his long and fruitful academic militancy (Messina, Bologna, Milan, Rome) and together with his intense intellectual and scientific experience. A pupil of Raffaele Pettazzoni, he developed in an original way the methodological lesson, of a historical-comparative nature, considered by Bianchi as the only one capable of overcoming those reductionisms which often led to other and different approaches to the religious fact and the religious facts of humanity , and thus to respect its complexity and irreducibility in the face of easy comparisons or assimilations. SUMMARY. Introduzione (Maria Vittoria Cerutti); Ugo Bianchi: la coerenza di un itinerario scientifico (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro); Ugo Bianchi and the History of Religions (Peter Antes); Ugo Bianchi: il profilo di uomo e studioso dalle carte del suo archivio (Lorenzo Bianchi); Ugo Bianchi e il mondo cattolico: un filo rosso dalla FUCI all’Università Cattolica (Giuliano Chiapparini); Storia e comparazione; epistemologia relazionale (Giulio Maspero); L’eredità di Ugo Bianchi nella storiografia recente (Chiara Tommasi); Album fotografico, Testi inediti o poco conosciuti di Ugo Bianchi; Documenti e corrispondenza provenienti dall’Archivio di Ugo Bianchi; Pubblicazioni a stampa di Ugo Bianchi (ed. Lorenzo Bianchi).