Author: C. Olson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The primary focus of this study is to view Eliade as not only a historian of religions but also as a theologian, a philosopher, novelist and as someone engaged in cross-cultural dialogue with other religious traditions. Besides attempting to view Eliade's work from a variety of perspectives, this study contends that the scholarly work of Eliade cannot be separated from his own personal quest for meaning.
The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade
Author: C. Olson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The primary focus of this study is to view Eliade as not only a historian of religions but also as a theologian, a philosopher, novelist and as someone engaged in cross-cultural dialogue with other religious traditions. Besides attempting to view Eliade's work from a variety of perspectives, this study contends that the scholarly work of Eliade cannot be separated from his own personal quest for meaning.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The primary focus of this study is to view Eliade as not only a historian of religions but also as a theologian, a philosopher, novelist and as someone engaged in cross-cultural dialogue with other religious traditions. Besides attempting to view Eliade's work from a variety of perspectives, this study contends that the scholarly work of Eliade cannot be separated from his own personal quest for meaning.
The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312079062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312079062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Sacred and the Profane
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156792011
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156792011
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
Mircea Eliade
Author: Nicolae Babuts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505173
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence, function, and value of religion and myth in his work.Nicolae Babuts, Robert Ellwood, Eric Ziolkowski, John Dadosky, Robert Segal, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Douglas Allen, and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred and the profane. Each explores Eliade's phenomenological approach to the study of religion and myth. They show that modern rites of initiation, cultural activities, and spectacles like bullfighting, film, and, perhaps surprisingly, reading and writing, all harken back to the archetypal structures of the mythical imagination. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Eliade's phenomenological approach is that it reveals what we have in common with pre-Socratic man: the mind's structural capacity to endow objects and events with spiritual values and meanings.As a study of Eliade's concept of the mythic imagination, the book posits an analogy between the myths of the past and modern imitations. The authors suggest that in spite of their differences and their separate historical sources, myths represent basic structures of human consciousness. This book is essential reading for all students of religion, philosophy, and literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505173
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was one of the twentieth century's foremost students of religion and cultural environments. This book examines the emergence, function, and value of religion and myth in his work.Nicolae Babuts, Robert Ellwood, Eric Ziolkowski, John Dadosky, Robert Segal, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Douglas Allen, and Liviu Borda examine Eliade's views on the interaction between the sacred and the profane. Each explores Eliade's phenomenological approach to the study of religion and myth. They show that modern rites of initiation, cultural activities, and spectacles like bullfighting, film, and, perhaps surprisingly, reading and writing, all harken back to the archetypal structures of the mythical imagination. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Eliade's phenomenological approach is that it reveals what we have in common with pre-Socratic man: the mind's structural capacity to endow objects and events with spiritual values and meanings.As a study of Eliade's concept of the mythic imagination, the book posits an analogy between the myths of the past and modern imitations. The authors suggest that in spite of their differences and their separate historical sources, myths represent basic structures of human consciousness. This book is essential reading for all students of religion, philosophy, and literature.
Changing Religious Worlds
Author: Bryan Rennie
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791447307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791447307
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
Author: Douglas Allen
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415939393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415939393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.
The Quest
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226203867
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226203867
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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
Patterns in Comparative Religion
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780722079454
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena-the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780722079454
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena-the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.
What is Religion?
Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
These essays deal with the question of, "what is the proper self-understanding of Christianity in a religiously pluralistic world?"
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
These essays deal with the question of, "what is the proper self-understanding of Christianity in a religiously pluralistic world?"
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
Author: Douglas Allen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136769447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analys
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136769447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analys