Chicago school

…the founder of the so-called Chicago School, from which emerged such influential scholars as Mircea Eliade.

…Religionswissenschaft (“science of religion”) in Chicago and was thus the founder of the modern “Chicago school” (though his successor, Mircea Eliade, had a rather different slant). Wach was concerned with emphasizing three aspects of religion—the theoretical (or mental; i.e., religious ideas and images), the practical (or behavioral), and the institutional…