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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.
- Chicago, Illinois
- March 13, 1907
- Bucharest, Bucuresti Municipality, Romania
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- Legacy of Mircea Eliade
Eliade was often described in the popular press and by scholars as the world’s most influential historian of religion. Although he had numerous followers, his approach to religion, myth, and symbol remains controversial. While having areas of scholarly specialization—as seen in his studies of Yoga, shamanism, alchemy, and archaic religion—Eliade was always an extreme generalist, comparativist, and synthesizer. Many scholars attacked his scholarship as subjective and unscientific. They charged that he made uncritical generalizations; ignored rigorous procedures of verification; favoured archaic and Asian religions (especially Hinduism) and nature-oriented peasant-based phenomena of “cosmic religion” (including “cosmic Christianity”); and interjected metaphysical and theological assumptions into his studies.
Eliade was particularly attracted to this premodern peasant orientation and worldview, with its “archaic ontology” that was essentially nontemporal, nonhistorical, cyclical, and aimed at the religious integration and harmony of nature and the cosmos. In this regard, he interpreted a “cosmic religion” of Romanian and other Christian peasants that had little interest in the dominant, Christian, theological, historical focus and instead found sacred Christian revelations in nature and the cosmic patterns and cycles.
Eliade was often described in the popular press and by scholars as the world’s most influential historian of religion. Although he had numerous followers, his approach to religion, myth, and symbol remains controversial. While having areas of scholarly specialization—as seen in his studies of Yoga, shamanism, alchemy, and archaic religion—Eliade was always an extreme generalist, comparativist, and synthesizer. Many scholars attacked his scholarship as subjective and unscientific. They charged that he made uncritical generalizations; ignored rigorous procedures of verification; favoured archaic and Asian religions (especially Hinduism) and nature-oriented peasant-based phenomena of “cosmic religion” (including “cosmic Christianity”); and interjected metaphysical and theological assumptions into his studies.
Eliade was particularly attracted to this premodern peasant orientation and worldview, with its “archaic ontology” that was essentially nontemporal, nonhistorical, cyclical, and aimed at the religious integration and harmony of nature and the cosmos. In this regard, he interpreted a “cosmic religion” of Romanian and other Christian peasants that had little interest in the dominant, Christian, theological, historical focus and instead found sacred Christian revelations in nature and the cosmic patterns and cycles.
Oct 3, 2022 · a bust of Mircea Eliade in Chișinău, Moldova, in the alley of sculptures of Romanian language literary heroes in Ștefan cel Mare Central Park (Douglas MacKenzie / Shutterstock) The encounter with the sacred is, in this sense, always a return to origins.
Mircea Eliade (Romanian: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.
Mircea Eliade (born March 9, 1907, Bucharest, Rom.—died April 22, 1986, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) was a historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and author of novels, novellas, and short stories.
In 1447 Vlad II and Mircea were both assassinated. Reportedly, Mircea buried alive by the boyars and rich Saxon merchants of Tirgoviste. This incident becomes a key reason for Vlad Tepes’ revenge on the boyars was exacted when he came to power.
