Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) Photograph 1986, Jeff Lowenthal, used by permission. Eliade was educated as a philosopher. He published extensively in the history of religions and acted as editor-in-chief of Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Religion. The influence of his thought, through these works and through thirty years as director of History of Religions department at Chicago University, is ...

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) As described in the Chicago note, Mircea Eliade is a marginal figure in the Friesian tradition. However, after Eliade died, certain criticisms were leveled at him that are noteworthy and deserving of serious attention. The substantive criticism was that the kind of theory of religion represented by Eliade, and for that matter Rudolf Otto himself, leads logically and ...

Description of the book Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos by Wasserstrom, S.M., published by Princeton University Press ...

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) Romanian-born historian of religion and fiction writer, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in this century. Eliade was intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1 300 ...