No search for is complete without a bibliography of his masterpieces.
In the pantheon of 20th-century intellectuals, few figures cast a shadow as long—or as complex—as Mircea Eliade. A novelist, a memoirist, a scholar of prodigious energy, and the eventual chairman of the History of Religions department at the University of Chicago, Eliade did more to shape how the modern West understands "religion" than perhaps any other thinker. eliade mircea
Eliade’s analysis of archaic societies’ conception of time. Through rituals and myths, these societies reject linear, irreversible history and periodically return to the mythical in illo tempore (“that time”) of creation. By re‑enacting cosmogonic acts, they renew time and abolish negative history. This “terror of history” is avoided through cyclical regeneration. No search for is complete without a bibliography
As Eliade put it, primitive man "killed time" by returning to the beginning. The New Year festivals, for example, re-enact the creation of the world. This cyclical view of history is a defense against the tragedy of memory and decay. This “terror of history” is avoided through cyclical
Any object or action that reveals the sacred—from a stone or a tree to a myth or ritual. Eliade argued that all religious traditions are built upon accumulated hierophanies.
For Homo Religiosus , however, space is not homogeneous; it is broken. There is