Mircea Eliade : a critical reader / edited by Bryan Rennie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rennie, Bryan S., 1954-

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Series:

Critical categories in the study of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.

Eliade, Mircea.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 448 pages ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006.

Summary:

This anthology is a collection of key essays by and about the Romanian-American Historian of Religions, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). It introduces the beginning student to the terms and categories of Eliade's understanding of religious behavior as a universal phenomenon: apprehension of the sacred by homo religiosus, humanity's religious mode, through hierophanies, revelatory events and objects. The analysis of religious behavior as the restoration of illud tempus, an alternative continuum of sacred time, through myth, ritual, and symbol, is a central feature of that understanding, assumed to have an authentic application in the struggle for increased freedom within the human condition.

As well as Eliade's own understanding and its implication for the study of Religions, the collection alerts the reader to the critical response to the problems of his thought. This includes the issues raised by Eliade's biography, politics, and career as one of the most successful and influential Historians of Religion of the late twentieth century. Moving from inter-war Romania, through India during its struggle for independence, to war-time London and Lisbon, post-war Paris, and finally to America in the sixties and seventies, Eliade's career traces a complex trajectory involving many problems central to the academic study of religion and culture.

Contents:

Eliade's understanding of religion

Eliade's methodology

Problems and themes in Eliade's thought.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [424]-438) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

ISBN:

1904768938

9781904768937

1904768946

9781904768944

OCLC:

63297772