Mircea Eliade : a critical reader / edited by Bryan Rennie.

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Published: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2006.
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Series:Critical categories in the study of religion
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Table of Contents:
  • Eliade's understanding of religion
  • Eliade's methodology
  • Problems and themes in Eliade's thought.

  • 1. General introduction / Bryan Rennie
  • 2. The life and work of Mircea Eliade / Bryan Rennie
  • 3. Introduction to The Sacred and the Profane / Mircea Eliade
  • 4. Folklore as an instrument of knowledge / Mircea Eliade
  • 5. The structure and morphology of the sacred / Mircea Eliade
  • 6. The sacred in the secular world / Mircea Eliade
  • 7. Before "the sacred" became theological : rereading the Durkheimian legacy / William Paden
  • 8. The ontology of the sacred / Bryan Rennie
  • 9. Hierophany / Mircea Eliade and Lawrence Sullivan
  • 10. The dialectic of the sacred / Douglas Alien
  • 11. Homo Religiosus / Gregory Alles
  • 12. Homo Faber and Homo Religiousus / Mircea Eliade
  • 13. Homo Religiosus in the thought of Mircea Eliade / John A. Saliba
  • 14. What the symbols "reveal" / Mircea Eliade
  • 15. Notes on the symbolism of the arrow / Mircea Eliade
  • 16. Normative elements in Eliade's phenomenological understanding of symbolism / Robert D. Baird
  • 17. Coincidentia Oppositorum - the mythical pattern / Mircea Eliade
  • 18. Polarity and the Coincidentia Oppositorum / Mircea Eliade
  • 19. The concept of the Coincidentia Oppositorum in the thought of Mircea Eliade / John Valk
  • 20. Mythology and the history of religions / Mircea Eliade
  • 21. Survivals and camouflages of myths / Mircea Eliade
  • 22. The myths of the modern world / Mircea Eliade
  • 23. Sacred time and myths / Mircea Eliade
  • 24. Illud Tempus : time by any other name / Bryan Rennie
  • 25. Methodological remarks on the study of religious symbolism / Mircea Eliade
  • 26. Pettazzoni as exemplary historian of religion / Mircea Eliade
  • 27. Shamanism : foreword / Mircea Eliade
  • 28. Distinguishing religious phenoemna / Douglas Allen
  • 29. Sermons from a man on a ladder / Edmund Leach
  • 30. Eliade on Buddhism / Richard Gombrich
  • 31. In Nostro Tempore : on Mircea Eliade / R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
  • 32. Mircea Eliade : some theoretical problems / Ivan Strenski
  • 33. The terror of history / Mircea Eliade
  • 34. Historical events and structural meaning in tension / Mircea Eliade
  • 35. How historical is the history of religions? / Robert Segal
  • 36. Mircea Eliade as the "anti-historian" of religions / Guilford Dudley III
  • 37. Miracea Eliade and postmodernism / Bryan Rennie
  • 38. On reading Eliade's stories as myths for moderns / Mac Linscott Ricketts
  • 39. The disguises of miracle : notes on Mircea Eliade's fiction / Matei Calinescu
  • 40. The secret nostalgia of Mircea Eliade for paradise : observations on the method of the "history of religions" / Ansgar Paus
  • 41. Orthodox mystical tradition and the comparative study of religion : an experimental synthesis / Alexander F. C. Webster
  • 42. Blind pilots / Mircea Eliade
  • 43. Meditation on the burning of Cathedrals / Mircea Eliade.

  • Eliade's understanding of religion
  • Eliade's methodology
  • Problems and themes in Eliade's thought
  • Bibliography.