February 24 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. Archaeology 3rd edn, 2000 pp 397 398, thus giving it the establishment seal of approval. A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian mircea eliade. However, eliade disagrees with wilhelm schmidtwho thought the earliest form of religion was a strict monotheism. Os multiplos nomes dos deuses designavam uma so divindade, e todas as religioes exprimiam a mesma verdade fundamental. This paper will try to delineate its characteristics as they appear in eliade s scientific work, i. It will be of concern to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence.
Although he is named alain in the book, the story is real and eliade copies from his own journals. Haig acterian s widow, religiiilor director marietta sadovawas sent to paris in order to reestablish contacts with the two. The encyclopedia of religion, mircea eliade, vol 15, trinity, p5357, as quoted in, should you believe the trinity. The sacred and the profane the nature of religion by mircea eliade translated from the french by willard r. The present volume comes out as a result of an international seminar mircea eliade between the history of religions and the fall into history held on april 2, 2012, in clujnapoca. Maitreyi is a memoir about the love between mircea eliade and an indian girl named, well, maitreyi. To quote eliade uncritically is to endorse a model of human development that is little. In the sacred and the profane, mircea eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. Buy encyclopedia of religion by mircea eliade online at alibris. Lo sciamanismo e le tecniche dellestasi mircea eliade. Originally published in romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar mircea eliade details the passionate awakenings of alain, an ambitious young french engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a european fascination with the mysterious subcontinent. Homo religiosus in the scientific work and fantastic prose. He also gives a fascinating explanation of primitive religions. The reallife maitreyi learns about the book years later, and learns about what the book tells even later than that.
Mircea eliades phenomenological analysis of religious experience. Oneofthe most important such mountains is mount meru, or sumeru, the mythical mountain that has centered theworld of the majority ofasianshindu, buddhist, and jain. Mircea eliade has 281 books on goodreads with 157350 ratings. Homo religiosus is an important concept of mircea eliade. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. According to eliade, modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation. During his later years, eliade s fascist past was progressively exposed publicly, the stress of which probably contributed to the decline of his mircea eliade istoria religiilor. Jennifer olsen rated it eliave not like it oct 08, trivia about patterns in compa the central theme in his istoria religiilor mircea eliade was erotic love.
Mircea eliade s phenomenological analysis of religious experience douglas allen introduction it seems possible to make the distinction between providing the criteria for separating religious from nonreligious phenomena and providing the criteria for interpreting the meaning of a religious phenomenon. Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. He offers an initial definition of the sacred as the opposite of the profane p 10 and goes on to explain what he means by this in terms of the concept of hierophany. By mircea eliade, 1957 this is one of my favorite books. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. The sacred and the profane serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also encompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. Eliade mircea couliano ioan petru dictionnaire des.
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