One mircea eliade is a highend residential compound developed by one united properties. Romanian philosopher mircea eliade was born in 1907 in bucharest. None of its online, so ill include a few excerpts from the interview. Eliade to be a historian of religions, and, more specifically, a phenomenologist of religion. He is author of, among other books, images and symbols. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established. Through reading certain texts, man can discover the sacred and can return to a. List of books and articles about mircea eliade online.
March 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion mircea eliade lays the groundwork for a western understanding of yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such conditionings as time and history. Preface tothe torchbook edition iamdelighted thatthis little bookistoberepublished intheharper torchbook series, especially because ithas given metheopportunity torestore theoriginal title. Mircea eliade 19071986 romanianborn historian of religion, fiction writer, and one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in this century. The story takes place between 1936 and 1948 in bucharest and several other european cities, and follows a romanian man who is on a spiritual quest while being torn between two women. Povestea are loc in perioada 1936 1948 in mai multe ora. Hardcover published in 2010, paperback published in 2004, 9789736755 hardcover published in 2010, 09424087 pap.
Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Acest roman constituie poate proiectul cel mai ambitios al lui. Despite a childhood interest in entomology and botany which doubtless first attracted his attention to goethe, a lifelong role model and inspiration, he developed an interest in world literature and was led from there to philology, philosophy, and comparative religion. The eternal return is an idea for interpreting religious behavior proposed by the historian mircea eliade. First published in 1951, shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Mircea eliade ayleeahd achieved worldwide recognition for his pioneering studies in comparative religion and the history of religion. Mircea eliade author visit amazons mircea eliade page. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, romanian emigrescholar mircea eliade 19071986 surveys the practice of shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of siberia and central asia. Mircea eliades phenomenological analysis of religious experience. Itwasonlylater that ichanged itstitle toarchetypes andrepetition. He studied in cernavoda, bucharest, finished philosophy courses at the university of bucharest at the age of 21, and went to calcutta, india, to study sanskrit and yoga. A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian mircea eliade 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. Themanuscript thatibegan inmay,1945, washeaded cosmos andhistory. Born in bucharest in 1907, mircea eliade was for many years sewell l.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Eliade claims that, whereas for nonreligious man the spatial aspect of the world is basically experienced as uniformly neutral, for religious man it was experienced as nonhomogeneous, partly sacred and partly not so. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion.
Immediately download the mircea eliade summary, chapterbychapter analysis, book notes, essays, quotes, character descriptions, lesson plans, and more everything you need for studying or teaching mircea eliade. Passing over the rational and speculative side of religion, he concentrated chiefly on its irrational aspect. Drawing on years of study and experience in india, eliade provides a comprehensive. Its this premise that both drives eliades exhaustive exploration.
His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human. 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. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and nonfiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. Avery distinguished service professor of the history of religions at the university of chicago. He agrees with the author that reading can become a ritual, perhaps more powerful than performance. Foret interdite is a 1955 novel by the romanian writer mircea eliade. Mircea eliade project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Oct 18, 2015 mircea eliade was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. To purchase this ebook for personal use, or in paperback or hardback format, please visit routledge ebooks are. The sacred and the profane the nature of religion by mircea eliade translated from the french by willard r. Mircea eliades phenomenological analysis of religious. He studied indian philosophy and sanskrit at the univ. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day.
Maitreyi romanian paperback january 1, 2008 by mircea eliade author. Mircea eliade was born in 1907 in bucharest, the son of an army officer. Studies in religious symbolism, myth of the eternal return, and yoga. Mircea eliade le chamanisme et les techniques archaiques. Constantin isac the romanian academy clujnapoca, george bari. Mircea eliade was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. For otto had read luther and had understood what the living god meant to a believer.
He lived in india from 19281932, after which he obtained a doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on yoga, and taught at the university of bucharest for seven years. Mircea eliade, maitreyi 1991 addeddate 20141031 12. February 24 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Photo from mircea eliade papers, spe cial collections research center, university of chicago library courtesy liviu borda. In this book eliade claimed sexual affair between them. He was a precocious child and published works for the first time at the age of. Mircea eliade teve decisiva influencia em muitos eruditos.
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