For work purposes on the history of religions, Otto traveled across locations in North Africa, China, Japan, United States, and Palestine. Some of Otto’s important ideas, one of which was his idea of the Holy, were influenced by a trip he took in the early twentieth century. He later held numerous professorships, first of systematic theology at Göttingen, then theology at the University of Breslau, and finally systematic theology at the University of Marburg. Otto studied philosophy and theology at the University of Erlangen and at the University of Gottingen. He is well-known for his idea of religious experience as being the apprehension of the “Holy” or the “numinous,” concepts he presented in his book The Idea of the Holy (1917). German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) was an influential theorist within the historical development of religious studies.
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