IAHR Congress and Conference Proceedings
The proceedings of the congresses and conferences arranged by the IAHR are published in various quarters, usually at the discretion of the hosting national associations. The proceedings currently available are as follows:
Proceedings of the major IAHR congresses
Proceedings of the regional and special IAHR conferences
Proceedings of the major Congresses of the IAHR
Paris 1900
Actes du Premier Congrès International d'Histoire des Religions (Part 1: Séances générales. Part 2: Séances des sections. 3 fasc.). 2 vols. Part 1: xxi, 246pp. Part 2: fasc.1, 143pp., fasc.2, 177, fasc.3, 163pp.
Edited by Jean Réville.
Paris: Ernest Leroux, Part 1: 1901, Part 2: 1902. (Préface dated1903).
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Basel 1904
Verhandlungen des II. Internationalen Kongresses für Allgemeine Religionsgeschichte. viii, 382pp.
Edited by Organizing Committee of Congress.
Basel: von Helbig und Lichtenhahn 1905.
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Oxford 1908
Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions. 2 vols. Part 1: 327pp. Part 2: 457pp.
Edited by P. S. Allen and J. de Johnson.
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1908.
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Leiden 1912
Actes du IVe Congrès International d'Histoire des Religions. 172 pp.
Edited by Congress Organizing Committee.
Leiden: Brill 1913.
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Paris 1923
Actes du Congrès International d'Histoire des Religions. Liste des Membres du Congrès - Programme des Travaux. 2 vols., plus "Liste des Membres du Congrès - Programme des Travaux". Vol. I: 519pp., II: 466pp., "Liste des Membres du Congrès - Programme des Travaux": 32pp.
Edited by Congress Organizing Committee.
Paris: Librarie Ancienne Honoré Champion 1925.
It remained unclear whether this congress belonged formally to the series of IAHR Congresses, and the numeration was resumed with the Congress at Lund which followed it.
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Lund 1929
Actes du Ve Congrès International d'Histoire des Religions. 346 pp.
Edited by Congress Organizing Committee.
Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup 1930.
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Brussels 1935
Mélanges Franz Cumont. 2 vols., 1047 pp.
Edited by Comité Directeur et Collaborateurs de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire.
Brussels: Université Libre 1936.
This volume was not explicitly published as proceedings but contains, in effect, the proceedings of the sixth IAHR Congress, held in Brussels.
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Amsterdam 1950
Proceedings of the 7th Congress for the History of Religions. 193 pp.
Edited by C. J. Bleeker, G. W. J. Drewes and K. A. H. Hidding.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company 1951.
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Rome 1955
Atti dell'VIII Congresso Internazionale di Storia delle Religioni. vii, 499pp.
Edited by Raffaele Pettazzoni.
Firenze: G. C. Sansoni 1956.
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Tokyo/Kyoto 1958
Proceedings of the IXth International Congress for the History of Religions, Tokyo and Kyoto, 1958. xiv, 914pp.
Edited by Congress Organising Committee.
Tokyo: Maruzen 1960.
This Congress was assigned a number in the sequence of major Congresses of the IAHR, although it did not fall into the five-year rhythm otherwise maintained from 1950 onwards.
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Marburg 1960
X. Internationaler Kongress für Religionsgeschichte, Marburg 1960. 241 pp.
Edited by Congress Organizing Committee.
Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag 1961.
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Claremont 1965
Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Claremont, CA. I The Impact of Modern Culture on Traditional Religions. II Guilt or Pollution and Rites of Purification. III The Role of Historical Scholarship in Changing the Relations among Religions. 3 vols. I: 181pp., II: 211pp., III: 89pp. Edited by C. J. Bleeker.Leiden: Brill 1968.
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Stockholm 1970
Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Stockholm 1970. vii, 350pp.
Edited by C. J. Bleeker, Geo Widengren and Eric J. Sharpe.
Leiden: Brill 1975.
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Lancaster 1975
History of Religions: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, 1975. 188pp.
Edited by Peter McKenzie and Michael Pye.
Leicester: Department of Religion, University of Leicester 1979.
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Winnipeg 1980
Traditions in Contact and Change. Selected Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. ix, 755pp.
Edited by Peter Slater and Donald Wiebe.
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1983.
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Sydney 1985
Identity Issues and World Religions: Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, 1985. 293pp.
Edited by Victor C. Hayes.
Netley: Wakefield Press 1986.
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Rome 1990
The Notion of "Religion" in Comparative Research: Selected Proceedings of the XVIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Rome, 3rd-8th September, 1990. 921pp.
Edited by Ugo Bianchi in cooperation with Fabio Mora and Lorenzo Bianchi.
Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider 1994.
Spin-off Volume:
Religion and Gender. xi, 324pp.
Edited by Ursula King.
Oxford & Cambridge: Basil Blackwell Ltd. 1995.
These are revised papers read at a panel during the congress.
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Mexico City 1995
Religion and Society: Proceedings of the 17th Quinquennial Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Mexico City, 5-12 August 1995, organised by the Sociedad Mexicana para el Estudio de las Religiónes (SMER) and the Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio de las Religiones (ALER), at the Claustro de Sor Juana. 159pp.
Edited by Yólotl González Torres and Michael Pye.
Cambridge: Roots and Branches 2003.
Besides the official proceedings of IAHR congresses, the Executive Committee established a process of inviting organizers of symposia, panels and other events at an IAHR congress to propose, subject to approval, the publication of "Adjunct Proceedings".
Adjunct Proceedings:
Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995. vi, 347pp.
Edited by Armin W. Geertz and Russell T. McCutcheon.
Leiden: Brill 2000. Reprinted from: Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Journal of the North American Association for the Study of Religion 12 (1/2), 2000.
Gender / Bodies / Religions: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. 363pp.Edited by Sylvia Marcos.Cuernavaca: ALER Publications 2000.
Translated to the Turkish by Sibel Ozbudun , Balki Safak, Ilker Cayla under the title Bedenler, Dinler ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Ankara, Utopya Yayinevi, 2006 (ISBN: 975-6361-35-2)
Spin-off Volumes:
Sectas o iglesias viejos o nuevos movimientos religiosos. 557pp.
Compiled by Elio Masferrer Kan.
San Rafael: Asociación Latinoamericana para el estudio de las Religiones (ALER) and Editorial Plaza y Valdés 1998.
Symposium on Religion and Gender. pp. 307-411.
Special issue of Religion. An International Journal 28, 1998.
Edited by Sylvia Marcos and Rosalind I. J. Hackett.
Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion: Selected Papers presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City 1995. (Gnostica: Texts and Interpretations). xvii, 309pp.
Edited by Antoine Faivre and Wouter J. Ganegraaff.
Leuven: Peeters 1998.
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History of Religions: Origins and Visions. Proceedings of the 18th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions.
Edited by Pratap Kumar and Michael Pye.
Cambridge: Roots and Branches (in press).
Adjunct Proceedings:
Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Graeco-Roman Religion: Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Durban, South Africa, 2000. 281pp.
Edited by Luther H. Martin & Panayotis Pachis.
Thessaloniki: University Studio Press 2003.
The Interface between Research and Dialogue: Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa. Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (5-11 August 2000, Durban/South Africa). vii, 176pp.
Edited by Klaus Hock.
Münster: LIT Verlag 2004.
Spin-off publications:
"A Twice-Told Tale: the History of the History of Religions' History," Numen. International Review for the History of Religions XLVIII (2), 2001, pp. 131-146.
By Jonathan Z. Smith.
A plenary address transmitted to the congress from Chicago by video broadcast.
Papers from the sessions on "Comparativism then and now: Stocktaking and critical issues in the formation of cross-cultural knowledge" were published in a special issue of Numen. International Review for the History of Religions XLVIII (3), 2001:
"Universals, General Terms and the Comparative Study of Religion," pp. 238-266, by Jeppe Sinding Jensen.
"Comparison: Some Suggestions for Improving the Inevitable," pp. 267-275, by Benson Saler.
"Universals Revisited: Human Behaviors and Cultural Variations," pp. 276-289, by William E. Paden.
"Comparativism and Sociobiological Theory," pp. 290-308, by Luther H. Martin.
"Comparative Religion, Taxonomies and 19th Century Philosophies of Science: Chantepie de la Saussaye and Tiele," pp. 309-338, by Thomas Ryba.
"In Defense of the Comparative Method," pp. 339-373, by Robert A. Segal.
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The XIXth World Congress was held in Tokyo. Proceedings are in print edited by G. ter Haar.
Adjunct Proceedings:
Gerrie ter Haar and Yoshio Tsuruoka (eds.), Religion and Society: An Agenda for the 21st Century. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Published in the series International Studies in Religion and Society (ISRS), volume 5. ISSN: 1573-4293. 306 pp.
In Japanese a similar volume of key contributions has been edited by Susumu Shimazona, Gerrie ter Haar, and Yoshio Tsuruoka: Shukyo: Sokoku to Heiwa (Religon:Conflict and Peace) published by Akiyama‐Shoten, Tokyo 2008.
Two major Religious Studies journals have devoted special issues to Congress papers:
Volume 32, no.2, (2005) of the English‐language Japanese Journal of Religious Studies was devoted to articles emanating from the Congress, while a collection of papers and responses was published in Japanese in Shukyo kenkyu (Journal of Religious Studies)
vol.79‐2, no.245, Sept. 2005 under the heading reports on the 19th World Congress of the IAHR in Tokyo’(pp.1‐144)
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Proceedings of the Regional and Special Conferences of the IAHR
Strasbourg 1964
Initiation. Contributions to the Theme of the Study Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions, Strasbourg, Sept. 17th-22nd 1964. viii, 309pp.
Edited by C. J. Bleeker. Leiden: Brill 1965.
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Messina 1966
Le Origini dello Gnosticismo: Colloquio di Messina 13-18 Aprile 1966. Testi e Discussioni. xxxii, 803pp.
Edited by Ugo Bianchi.Leiden: Brill 1967, 19702.
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Jerusalem 1968
Types of Redemption: Contributions to the Theme of the Study Conference held at Jerusalem 14th-19th July 1968. 261pp.
Edited by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and C. J. Bleeker. Leiden: Brill 1970.
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Turku 1973
Science of Religion: Studies in Methodology. Proceedings of the Study Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions held in Turku, Finland, August 27-31, 1973. 629pp.
Edited by Lauri Honko.
The Hague: Mouton 1979.
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Warsaw 1979
Current Progress in the Methodology of the Science of Religions. 308pp.
Edited by Witold Tyloch.
Warsaw: Polish Society for the Science of Religions 1984.
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Marburg 1988
Marburg Revisited: Institutions and Strategies in the Study of Religion. 164pp.
Edited by Michael Pye.
Marburg: diagonal-Verlag 1989.
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Warsaw 1989
Studies on Religions in the Context of Social Sciences: Methodological and Theoretical Relations. 226pp.
Edited by Witold Tyloch.
Warsaw: Polish Society for the Science of Religions 1990.
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Groningen 1989
Religionswissenschaft und Kulturkritik: Beiträge zur Konferenz The History of Religions and the Critique of Culture in the Days of Gerardus van der Leeuw (1890-1950). 399pp.
Edited by Hans G. Kippenberg and Brigitte Luchesi.
Marburg: diagonal-Verlag 1991.
Though not stated explicitly in the publication, the conference took place with the official status of a Regional Conference of the IAHR.
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Helsinki 1990
Northern Religions and Shamanism. The Regional Conference of the International Association of the History of Religions, Selected Papers. 214pp.
Edited by Mihály Hoppál and Juha Pentikäinen.
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó and Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society 1992.
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Burlington 1991
Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: Eastern Europe and Latin America. 457pp.
Edited by Luther H. Martin.
Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter 1993.
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Harare 1992
The Study of Religions in Africa: Past, Present and Prospects. Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions, Harare, Zimbabwe 1992. 393pp.
Edited by Jan Platvoet, James Cox and Jacob Olupona.
Cambride: Roots and Branches 1996.
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Beijing 1992
Religion and Modernization in China: Proceedings of the Regional Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions, Beijing, China, April 1992. 346pp.
Edited by Dai Kangsheng, Zhang Xinying and Michael Pye.
Cambridge: Roots and Branches 1995.
The contents of this volume also appeared in Chinese in the journal Shijie Zongjiao Ziliao (92/4 and 93/1).
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Paris 1993
An IAHR Special Conference. No proceedings published.
Brno 1994
Religions in Contact: Selected Proceedings of the Special IAHR Conference Held in Brno, August 23-26, 1994. 228pp.
Edited by Iva Doleñalová, Bretislav Horyna and Dalibor Papoušek.
Brno: Czech Society for the Study of Religions & Institute for the Study of Religions of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University 1996.
Aarhus 1996
Rationality and the Study of Religion. 221pp.
Edited by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. Martin.
Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 1997.
Although this is not stated explicitly in the publication, the conference took place with the official status of a Special Conference of the IAHR, while being at the same time a workshop for doctoral students from the Nordic countries.
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Religion y Etnicidad en America Latina: Memorias del VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Religion y Etnicidad ALER y II Encuentro de la diversidad del hecho religioso en Colombia ICER. 3 vols., I: vii, 391pp., II: vii, 447pp., III: vii, 449pp.
Although this is not stated explicitly in the publication, the conference took place with the official status of a Regional Conference of the IAHR.
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An IAHR Co-Sponsored colloquium. No proceedings published.
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Turku 1997
Approaching Religion. Part I. Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Methodology in the Study of Religions Held at Åbo, Finland, on the 4th-7th August 1997. 310pp.
Edited by Tore Ahlbäck.
Åbo: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History & Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International 1999.
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Ugo Bianchi: Una vita per la storia delle religioni. (Biblioteca di storia delle religioni, 3). 525pp.
Edited by Giovanni Casadio.
Rome: "il Calamo" 2002.
The proceedings of an IAHR Co-Sponsored Memorial Conference for Ugo Bianchi.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. No proceedings published.
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A joint IAHR and NAASR Round Table at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. The papers have been published or are currently in press in several different journals.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are published: J.N.K. Mugambi & Mary N. Getui (eds.) 2004, Religions in Eastern Africa under Globalization. Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 267 pp., ISBN 9966-888-73-X
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The Academic Study of Religion during the Cold War East and West. (Toronto Studies in Religion, 27). xviii, 336pp. Edited by Iva Doleñalová, Luther H. Martin, and Dalibor Papoušek.
New York: Peter Lang 2001.
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An IAHR Special Conference. No proceedings have been published.
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What Is Religion For? x, 346pp.
Edited by Joseph Bulbulia and Paul Morris
Wellington: New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions/Religious Studies Programme, The School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies, Victoria University 2004.
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Hellenisation, Empire and Globalisation: Lesson from Antiquity
Edited by. Luther H. Martin and Panyotis Pachis
Vanias Publications, Thessaloniki 2004 (Acts of the Panel held during the 3rd Congress of the EASR, Bergen, Norway, 8-10 May 2003).
An IAHR Special Conference. Some other individual papers will be published in various journals.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Special Conference. A selection of the papers has been published as vol. 2 of the Review Banduein 2008.
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Religious Harmony: Problems, Practice and Education, XXVI + 324p.
Edited by Wasim, A. T. / Mas'ud /A. Franke, E. and Pye, M. Yogyakarta: Oasis Publisher, 2005 (ISBN 979-97829-2-0)
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Special Conference.Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Special Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Regional Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Special Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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An IAHR Special Conference. Proceedings are underway.
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Availability
As far as is known the following proceedings are currently in print.
Congresses:
Lancaster 1975: limited number available through IAHR only
Winnipeg 1980: limited reprint in preparation (contact IAHR)
Sydney 1985
Rome 1990
Mexico City 1995
Regional and Special conferences: Turku 1973, Marburg 1988, Groningen 1989, Helsinki 1990, Burlington 1991, Beijing 1992, Harare 1992, Brno 1994, Aarhus 1996, Bogotá 1996, Turku 1997, Salerno 1997, Brno 1999.
In case of difficulty apply to one of the officers (sp. publications officer) of the IAHR.
