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Mircea Eliade died at the Bernard Mitchell Hospital in April 1986. Eight days previously, he suffered a stroke while reading Emil Cioran 's Exercises of Admiration , and had subsequently lost his speech function. [ 9 ]
Dr Mircea Eliade. Birth. 13 Mar 1907. Bucharest, Bucuresti Municipality, Romania. Death. 22 Apr 1986 (aged 79) Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Burial. Oak Woods Cemetery.
- Bucharest, Bucuresti Municipality, Romania
- March 13, 1907
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Mircea Eliade, (born March 9, 1907, Bucharest, Rom.—died April 22, 1986, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), Romanian-born U.S. historian of religion.
- Contribution to The Study of Religion
- Critiques of Eliade
- A Sampling of Critical Works About Eliade
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Eliade's most enduring contribution to the academic study of religion was to recover it from the then-prevalent tendency towards reductionistic explanations (i.e., the economic reductionism of Karl Marx, the psychological reductionism of Sigmund Freud, or the social reductionism of Emile Durkheim). To counteract this tendency, Eliade stressed that:...
Scholarly: Eliade's work as theology
One major criticism often levelled at Eliade is that his work is more theological than historical. Specifically, his search for essentialistic correspondences between traditions and mythologies reveals his fundamental assumption that "all authentic religious experience implies a desperate effort to disclose the foundation of things, the ultimate reality" and that differences between religions simply emerge from "embedded[ness] in a historical context."Eliade's position is not "provable" in an...
Scholarly: Imprecise definition of "symbol"
As described above, Eliade’s far-reaching studies have all sought to better comprehend the institution of human religion through its use of myth and signs. In his view, symbols form a coherent, logical system, one that reveals many meanings simultaneously, and that expresses the "subconscious and transconscious activity of man." While his theory of symbols is a mere subset of his whole perspective, this portion of Eliade’s approach has received numerous criticisms. For example, it has been ar...
Biographic: Anti-Semitism and links with the Iron Guard
The early years in Eliade's public career show him to have been highly tolerant of the Jews in general, and of the Jewish minority in Romania in particular. His condemnation of the Nazi's anti-Semiticpolicies was accompanied by his caution and moderation in regard to Nae Ionescu's various anti-Jewish attacks. Despite this, Mihail Sebastian has claimed in his Journal that Eliade's actions during the 1930s show him to be an anti-Semite. According to Sebastian, who was Jewish, Eliade had been a...
Allen, Douglas. 2002. Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415939399Carrasco, David and Law, Jane Marie (eds.). 1991. Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0870812394Culianu, Ioan Petru. 1978. Mircea Eliade.Assisi: Citadela Editrice.Dadosky, John Daniel. 2004. The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791460614Cernat, Paul. 2004. "Îmblânzitorul României Socialiste. De la Bîrca la Chicago şi înapoi." In Cernat, Paul, Ion Manolescu, Angelo Mitchievici, and Ioan Stanomir. Explorări în comunismul românesc, V...Dudley, Guildford the III. 1977. Religion on Trial: Mircea Eliade and His Critics. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 0877221022Eliade, Mircea. 1959. "Methodological Remarks on the Study of Religious Symbolism." In Joseph Kitagawa and Mircea Eliade (eds.). The History of Religions: Essays on Methodology.Chicago: University...Eliade, Mircea. 1954. The Myth of the Eternal Return.Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. Bollingen Series XLVI. New York: Pantheon Books. ASIN B000H0UH0GMircea II, however, was captured by Saxon elite, which were part of the ruling council in Târgoviște, and was blinded with a red-hot poker, then buried alive. His father was captured and killed shortly thereafter.
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Oct 3, 2022 · Remembering Mircea Eliade. PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 30: Romanian writer and essayist Mircea Eliade at home during a portrait session held on September 30, 1978 in Paris, France.
