Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago
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- PhD History of Religions University of Bucharest
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. A leading interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
Mircea Eliade's Published Works
Published Works
- The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion (1987) (1683)
- Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1951) (797)
- The Myth of the Eternal Return (1954) (679)
- Patterns in comparative religion (1958) (668)
- Myth and Reality (1963) (584)
- The Encyclopedia of religion (1986) (480)
- The myth of the eternal return : cosmos and history (1955) (459)
- Cosmos and history : the myth of the eternal return (1959) (376)
- Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (1960) (281)
- Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism (1961) (242)
- Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth (1975) (214)
- The Quest; History And Meaning In Religion (1969) (205)
- Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities. (1961) (176)
- A history of religious ideas (1986) (140)
- The Forge and the Crucible (1956) (109)
- The Two And The One (1965) (81)
- Symbolism, the Sacred and the Arts (1985) (74)
- The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy (1979) (70)
- Yoga: Immortality and Freedom. (1959) (63)
- History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries (1979) (56)
- The history of religions : essays in methodology. (1973) (52)
- Myths, Rites, Symbols: A Mircea Eliade Reader (1976) (36)
- Some Observations on European Witchcraft (1975) (34)
- Birth and rebirth : the religious meanings of initiation in human culture (1958) (34)
- Mythologies of the Ancient World (1961) (31)
- The Eliade guide to world religions (1991) (30)
- From Primitives to Zen; A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions. (1978) (28)
- Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religions. (1978) (27)
- The History of Religions (1969) (26)
- Patanjali and Yoga (1975) (25)
- Australian Religions: An Introduction (1973) (25)
- History of Religions and a New Humanism (1961) (21)
- Cosmogonic Myth and ‘Sacred History’ (1967) (20)
- The Sacred in the Secular World (1973) (17)
- The Quest for the "Origins" of Religion (1964) (17)
- Mephistopheles and the Androgyne : studies in religious myth and symbol (1965) (17)
- Archaic Roman religion, with an appendix on the religion of the Etruscans (1975) (17)
- Zalmoxis, the vanishing God;: Comparative studies in the religions and folklore of Dacia and Eastern Europe (1972) (17)
- Recent Works on Shamanism. A Review Article (1961) (16)
- Time and Eternity in Indian Thought (1957) (15)
- A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 2.-From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity (1983) (13)
- Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World (1991) (12)
- Paradise and Utopia: Mythical Geography and Eschatology (1966) (12)
- The Yearning for Paradise in Primitive Tradition (1953) (11)
- Mythologies of Memory and Forgetting (1963) (11)
- The History of Religions (Essays on the Problem of Understanding). Vol. I (1968) (9)
- The Sacred and Profane (1987) (9)
- Ordeal by labyrinth : conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet : with the essay "Brancusi and mythology" (1982) (9)
- From Muhammad to the age of reforms (1985) (9)
- Spirit, Light, and Seed (1971) (9)
- Crisis and Renewal in History of Religions (1965) (8)
- Youth Without Youth (1976) (7)
- History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (1988) (7)
- Gods, goddesses, and myths of creation : a thematic source book of the history of religions : part 1 of From primitives to Zen (1974) (7)
- The persistence of religion : an essay on tantrism and Sri Aurobindo's philosophy (1965) (7)
- Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henry Rocquet (1983) (7)
- The Forge and the Crucible: A Postscript (1968) (6)
- Australian Religions: An Introduction. Part II (1967) (6)
- Mystic Stories: The Sacred and the Profane (1992) (6)
- Two Strange Tales (1986) (6)
- Notes on the Symbolism of the Arrow (1968) (6)
- The Myth of the Eternal Return. Princeton (Princeton University Press) 1954. (1954) (6)
- History of Religions and "Popular" Cultures (1980) (6)
- Australian Religions: An Introduction. Part I (1966) (6)
- The Prestige of the Cosmogonic Myth (1958) (6)
- The History of Religions in Retrospect: 1912–1962 (1963) (5)
- The Forbidden Forest (1955) (5)
- Zalmoxis: The Vanishing God: Comparative Studies in the Religions and Folklore of Dacia and Eastern Europe (1980) (5)
- The history of religions : retrospect and prospect : a collection of original essays (1985) (5)
- Tales of the sacred and the supernatural (1981) (4)
- Patanjali : et le yoga (1989) (3)
- Australian Religions. Part IV: The Medicine Men and Their Supernatural Models (1967) (3)
- Journey east, journey west : 1907-1937 (1981) (3)
- Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West (1990) (3)
- South American High Gods. Part I (1969) (3)
- Some Notes on "Theosophia Perennis": Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Henry Corbin (1979) (3)
- What is religion?: An inquiry for Christian theology (1980) (2)
- The Romanians : a concise history (1992) (2)
- Henry Corbin (1979) (2)
- Occultism and Freemasonry in Eighteenth-Century Europe (1973) (2)
- Death, afterlife and eschatology : a thematic source book of the history of religions : part 3 of From primitive to Zen (1974) (2)
- Modern Trends in World Religions (1960) (2)
- Australian Religions. Part III: Initiation Rites and Secret Cults (1967) (1)
- Survivals and Camouflages of Myths (1963) (1)
- Two tales of the occult (1971) (1)
- La nuit bengali (1950) (1)
- The persistence of religion (1965) (1)
- World Enough without Time (1959) (1)
- Zalmoxis (1972) (1)
- 1937-1960, exile's odyssey (1988) (1)
- The Old Man and the Bureaucrats (1967) (1)
- Australian Religions. Part V: Death, Eschatology, and Some Conclusions (1968) (1)
- Man and the sacred : a thematic source book of the history of religions : part 2 of From primitives to Zen (1974) (1)
- Autobiography. 1: 1907-1937: Journey East, Journey West (1982) (1)
- The History of Religions . Vol. I (1968) (1)
- Autobiography. 2: 1937-1960: Exile's Odyssey (1990) (0)
- On the Slavic Matriarchy (1974) (0)
- Hutton Webster. Taboo. A sociological study ; Hutton Webster. Magic. A sociological study (1950) (0)
- Anna Elizabeth Wilhelm-Hooijbergh. Peccatum. Sin and guilt in ancient Rome (1955) (0)
- Mythology and the History of Religions (1955) (0)
- The “Unorthodox” Praehistory (1971) (0)
- The “Orthodox” Praehistory (1971) (0)
- Arne Runeberg. Witches, Demons and fertility Magic. Analysis of their signifiance and mutual relations in west-european folk Religion (1949) (0)
- THE ITALIAN CHURCH OF BUCHAREST (0)
- Alchemy and Science in China (1970) (0)
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (1973) (0)
- Australian Religion: An Introduction. (1973) (0)
- Man and the Sacred (1974) (0)
- Indologica, I (1980) (0)
- Back Matter (1989) (0)
- Tantra and Tantrism (1971) (0)
- La umbra unui crin (1992) (0)
- Unduire Si Moarte (1995) (0)
- Back Matter (1967) (0)
- South American High Gods (1971) (0)
- Recent Works on Prehistoric Religion (1976) (0)
- South American High Gods. Part II (1971) (0)
- [The Indian symbolism of the abolishment of time]. (1952) (0)
- オカルティズム・魔術・文化流行 (1978) (0)
- Scrupulous Permutations and Occult Resemblances (1971) (0)
- Art and Thought. A volume in Honour of the late Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1949) (0)
- On Prehistoric Religions (1974) (0)
- Songs of the Mystic Path (1983) (0)
- Mystery And Spiritual Regeneration In Extra-European Religions (1981) (0)
- E. Douglas Van Buren. Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art (1947) (0)
- Introduction: Tantrism Within the Perspective of the History of Religions (1971) (0)
- From medicine men to Muhammad : a thematic source book of the history of religions : part 4 of From primitives to Zen (1974) (0)
- General And Ethnology: Theories of Primitive Religion. E. E. Evans‐Pritchard (1966) (0)
- Modern Trends in World Religions@@@The History of Religions: Essays in Methodology (1960) (0)
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