Mircea Eliade and the Quest for Religious Meaning

Mihaela Paraschivescu

Abstract


As Mircea Eliade’s translator and biographer Mac Linscott Rickett states, Eliade involved the whole discipline of the history of religions in the quest for meaning. The paper examines Eliade’s approach of religious documents, with benefits and shortcomings as appraised by some of his American critics, and looks closely at the Eliadean creative hermeneutics and the ambitious mission he envisaged for the discipline he has founded in the United States.


Keywords


creative hermeneutics; new humanism; homo religiosus; myth; symbol; image; sacred and profane

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