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Mircea Eliade (Author)

Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World: A Thematic Sourcebook on the History of Religions

Editura: HARPER COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 1991

Originally published as From Primitives to Zen , this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful descriptions of deities, creation myths, depictions of death and the afterlife, teachings on the relationship between humanity and the sacred, religious rituals and practices, and prayers and hymns. Mircea Eliade, a recognized pioneer in the systematic study of the history of the world's religions, includes excerpts from the Quran, the Book of the Dead, the Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, the Homeric Hymns, and the Popol Vuh, to name just a few. Oral accounts from Native American, African, Maori, Australian, Aborigine, and other peoples are also included. Here is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the world's religions and myths. In an outstanding collection, Eliade demonstrates humanity's diversity as well as the universal threads that unite us all.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1984

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."--Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education

Mircea Eliade (Author)

The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1979

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, adventures rooted in the people's awareness of an awesome new power. The new edition of The Forge and the Crucible contains an updated appendix, in which Eliade lists works on Chinese alchemy published in the past few years. He also discusses the importance of alchemy in Newton's scientific evolution.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1978

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six lucid essays collected for this volume, Eliade reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. Since all of the essays except the last were originally delivered as lectures, their introductory character and lively oral style make them particularly accessible to the intelligent nonspecialist. Rather than a popularization, Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions is the fulfillment of Eliade's conviction that the history of religions should be read by the widest possible audience.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1985

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity--all are encompassed in this volume.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1988

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas . Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable. As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Journal III, 1970-1978

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1989

More an eloquent chronicle of the mind's life than a recital of daily routine, this volume of Mircea

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Autobiography, Volume 2: 1937-1960, Exile's Odyssey

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1988

"Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently amazingly candid report of this remarkable man's progression from a mischievous street urchin and literary prodigy, through his various love affairs, a decisive and traumatic Indian sojourn, and active, brilliant participation in pre-World War II Romanian cultural life."--Seymour Cain, Religious Studies Review

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Journal IV, 1979-1985

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1989

"Journal IV" is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar his works are being translated into many languages and books about him arrive regularly in the mail. His encounters with scholars of like repute are recorded in the journal; after a party in Paris, Eliade shares a taxi with Claude Levi-Strauss and inadvertently makes off with his raincoat. Running like a fault line through the peak of his success, however, is Eliade's painful awareness of his physical decline failing vision, arthritic hands, and continual fatigue. Again and again he repeats how little time he has to finish the projects he is working on his autobiography, the third and fourth volumes of his "History of Religious Ideas," and the duties associated with his editorship of the Encyclopedia of Religion. He poignantly recounts the sharpest blow: the disorganization and eventual destruction by fire of his personal library. Within the scope of "Journal IV" Eliade and his world go to ruin. What does not decline is the vivid and persistent voice of Eliade the ...

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Journal I, 1945-1955

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1990

Journal I is a story of revewal--of the new life that began for Mircea Eliade in the fall of 1945 when he became an expatriate. Eliade came to Paris virtually empty-handed, following the death of his first wife and the Soviet takeover of Romania, which made him a persona non grata there. He had left half a lifetime in Romania: his parents, whom he never saw again; his library; unpublished and unfinished manuscripts, including the journal notebooks prior to 1940; an academic career; and Zalmoxis, the journal of religious studies he founded. During the lean years in Paris Eliade lived and worked in small, cold rooms; prepared meals on a Primus stove; pawned his valuables; and asked friends for loans. Eventually he secured a research stipend from the Bollingen Foundation. His ten years in Paris were among his most productive; the books he wrote during this period brought him worldwide acclaim as a historian of religions. He records his first meetings with Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gershom Scholem, Georges Bataille, André Breton, Raffaele Pettazzoni, and many other scholars and writers. Eliade also continued to write literary works. Numerous entries describe his five-year ...

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Bengal Nights

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a "roman a clef" of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Roma

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism

Editura: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1991

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Yoga: Immortality and Freedom

Editura: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2009

In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. A new introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable insight into Eliade's life and work, highlighting the key moments in Eliade's academic and spiritual education, as well as the personal experiences that shaped his worldview. Yoga is not only one of Eliade's most important books, it is also his most personal--the only one to analyze a religious tradition that he had truly lived.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts

Editura: CONTINUUM

Anul aparitiei: 1992

This major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. In his lifelong quest to understand the presence of the Sacred throughout human history, Eliade has been fascinated by two central themes: Creation and Time. Page dim. 228 x 157 x 13 Weight: 326 grams

Mircea Eliade (Author)

The Portugal Journal

Editura: EXCELSIOR ED

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Mac Linscott Ricketts is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Louisburg College. He is the translator of a number of Mircea Eliade's works, including Journal I, 1945-1955 , Journal IV, 1979-1985 , and Autobiography I and II .

Mircea Eliade (Author)

The Portugal Journal

Editura: EXCELSIOR ED

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Detailing a fascinating, hitherto unknown period in the life of one of the twentieth century's preeminent intellectuals, The Portugal Journal was written by Mircea Eliade from 1941-1945, when he served as a diplomat in Lisbon. Eliade's work as a theorist of religion has been the chief influence on how religion is understood and studied in contemporary times and he is also increasingly well known as a writer of fiction and drama. Long awaited by readers, The Portugal Journal is the only one of Eliade's journals to be published in its entirety, unedited by its author. Here, Eliade writes frankly, at times about things that he could never bring himself to make public, including his relationship with the Iron Guard, his problems with hypersexuality, his religious beliefs and actions, his admiration for René Guénon, and his sufferings and terrible grief both before and after his wife's death. "With WWII as the historical context, this journal is fascinating to read because Eliade invites the reader into the interior of his troubled mind. The journal is replete with existential pathos, anxiety, loss, fear, danger, suffering, sorrow, and happy moments. Readers will be rewarded with some ...

Mircea Eliade (Author)

El Tiempo de un Centenario: Dayan

Editura: EDIT KAIROS

Anul aparitiei: 2007

At the outbreak of World War II, an old man is struck by a bolt of lightning and miraculously becomes young again. Now endowed with a fantastic memory and comprehension, he receives telepathic messages from the supernatural, which leads to heightened Nazi interest in studying his bizarre situation. Al comienzo de la segunda guerra mundial, un viejo cae víctima de un rayo y milagrosamente se vuelve joven otra vez. Con una memoria fantástica y una alta comprensión que le aporta su nueva juventud, el joven comienza a recibir mensajes telepáticos del más allá, lo cual atrae la atención e intriga de los nazis.

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Cosmos and History: The Mith of the Eternal Return

Editura: ADDISON WESLEY PUB CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Had we not feared to appear overambitious, we should have given this book a subtitle: Introduction to a Philosophy of History. For such, after all, is the purport of the present essay; but with the distinction that, instead of proceeding to a speculative analysis of the historical phenomenon, it examines the fundamental concepts of archaic societies which, although they are conscious of a certain form of "history," make every effort to disregard it. In studying these traditional societies, one characteristic has especially struck us: it is their revolt against concrete, historical time, their nostalgia for a periodical return to the mythical time of the beginning of things, to the "Great Time." The meaning and function of what we have called "archetypes and repetition" disclosed themselves to us only after we had perceived these societies' will to refuse concrete time, their hostility toward every attempt at autonomous "history," that is, at history not regulated by archetypes. These dismissals, this opposition, are not merely the effect of the conservative tendencies of primitive societies, as this book proves. In our opinion, it is justifiable to read in this depreciation of ...

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Two Strange Tales

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 1970

So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. In "Nights at Serampore, " three European scholars, traveling deep in the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the violent murder of a young Hindu wife. In "The Secret of Dr. Honigberger, " a respectable Rumanian physician vanishes without a trace after experimenting with yogic techniques in his quest for the legendary invisible world called Shambhala.

Mircea Eliade (Author)

Techniques Du Yoga

Editura: OXFAM PUB

Anul aparitiei: 1994

Issues covered include women s comparative lack of access to medical care throughout the life-cycle;