1st Edition

Mircea Eliade Myth, Religion, and History

By Nicolae Babuts Copyright 2014
223 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

223 Pages
by Routledge

Mircea Eliade (1907�1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence, function, and value of religion and myth in his work. Nicolae Babuts, Robert Ellwood, Eric Ziolkowski, John Dadosky, Robert Segal, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Douglas Allen, and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred... Read more
Acknowledgments Mircea Eliade: Biographical Note, Mac Linscott Ricketts Introduction by Nicolae Babuts 1 Eliade: Essentialist or Postmodern? The Sacred and an Unseen Order, Robert Ellwood 2 The Place of Literature in Eliade's Rediscovery of the Archaic World, Eric Ziolkowski 3 Eliade and Girard on Myth, John D. Dadosky 4 Eliade on Myth and Science, Robert A. Segal 5 Mircea Eliade: Theo;s eghenou . . ., Mac Linscot Rickets and Mircea Eliade 6 Eliade's Phenomenological Approach to Religion and Myth, Douglas Allen 7 The Magic Fact and the Mystic Fact: Eliade's First Encounter with the Works of Evola, Liviu Bordas Contributors Index

Biography

Nicolae Babuts