RELIGIOUS RESEARCHES. - Monthly journal of historico-religious studies founded by E. Buonaiuti in 1925 (and condemned in that same year), after the founder had been censured in 1924. Alongside topics of a historico-critical content, it also features polemical suggestions and perspectives of a mystical type in keeping with Buonaiuti's mental orientation.

In 1934 it changed its title to that of Religio, which had already belonged to another periodical of hierographic studies that had a short-lived existence (1919-20). The publication of the R. r. was interrupted by the events of the Second World War, and after the death of the founder (1947) it was resumed, appearing as a quarterly organ of an "Associazione Ernesto Buonaiuti" directed by a committee of university professors, with Dr. M. Niccoli as editorial secretary. The Association's chief purpose, apart from any polemic and particular mystical viewpoints, is "to spread the scientific knowledge of the history of Christianity within the framework of the religions of the Mediterranean world and to awaken an ever more lively interest in historico-religious studies in general." Three volumes have appeared so far (1952).

Nicola Turchi

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