Rudolf Otto and the Foundation of the History of Religions. By YoshitsugoSawai. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. xiii, 200. $115.00.

Abstract

This volume consists of a helpful preface, introduction, eight chapters, a conclusion, copious notes, a bibliography that contains Rudolf Otto's main works, including his posthumous publications, and references on Otto in English, German, and Japanese, plus a helpful index. In the last decade, research on the thought of Otto has mushroomed. An international conference on Otto's thought took place at Marburg University in 2012, and at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in 2013, a panel discussed Otto's thought on ‘Genealogies of the Numinous’.