“Nietzsche and Religion” is not an unusual topic in Nietzsche scholarship. Yet most studies on this topic limit themselves to his relationship to Christianity or Buddhism. Few people have systematically examined Nietzsche’s reception of other non-Christian religions. Johann Figl’s 2007 monograph Nietzsche und die Religionen. Transkulturelle Perspektiven seines Bildungs- und Denkweges fills this gap. While most recent publications concerning Nietzsche’s relationship to religions are philosophically oriented, Figl’s book takes a strictly historical approach. It not only is a reconstruction of Nietzsche’s knowledge of various religions and their influence on his philosophy, but also aims to outline the early history of Religionswissenschaft reflected in Nietzsche’s Bildungsweg. Such an ambitious project requires intimate knowledge of Nietzsche’s life and thought as well as nineteenth-century German scholarship in which he was trained. Figl, an expert on Nietzsche as well as religious studies, is one of the few scholars who can take on...
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