Bryan S Rennie

Mircea Eliade

A Critical Reader

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology is a collection of key essays by and about the Romanian-American Historian of Religions, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). It introduces the beginning student to the terms and categories of Eliade's understanding of religious behaviour as a universal phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 187mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 984g
• ISBN-13: 9781904768937
• ISBN-10: 1904768938
• Artikelnr.: 22269263

Autorenporträt

Bryan Rennie is Vera I. Heinz Professor of Religion at Westminster College, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction "Eliade's Life and Times
" Bryan Rennie "Introduction to The Sacred and the Profane
" Mircea Eliade. Part II: Eliade's Understanding of Religion II.A. Early Understanding "Folklore as an Instrument of Knowledge
" Mircea Eliade (trans. Mac Linscott Ricketts) II.B. The Elements of Eliade's Understanding: II.B.1.The Sacred "The Structure and Morphology of the Sacred
" Mircea Eliade "The Sacred in the Secular World
" Mircea Eliade "Before the Sacred became Theological
" William Paden "The Ontology of the Sacred
" Bryan Rennie II.B.2. Hierophany "Hierophany
" Mircea Eliade and Lawrence Sullivan II.B.3. The Dialectics of the Sacred and the Profane "The Dialectic of the Sacred
" Douglas Allen II.B.4. Homo Religiosus "Homo Religiosus
" Gregory Alles "Homo Faber and Homo Religiosus
" Mircea Eliade "Homo Religiosus in the Thought of Mircea Eliade
" John Saliba II.B.5. Symbols "What the Symbols Reveal
" Mircea Eliade "Notes on the Symbolism of the Arrow
" Mircea Eliade "Normative Elements in Eliade's Phenomenology of Symbolism
" Robert Baird II.B.6. The Coincidentia Oppositorum "Coincidentia Oppositorum--the Mythical Pattern
" Mircea Eliade "Polarity and the Coincidentia Oppositorum
" Mircea Eliade "The Concept of the Coincidentia Oppositorum
" John Valk II.B.7. Myths "Mythology and the History of Religions
" Mircea Eliade "Survivals and Camouflages of Myth
" Mircea Eliade "The Myths of the Modern World
" Mircea Eliade II.B.8. Illud Tempus "Sacred Time and Myths
" Mircea Eliade "Illud Tempus: Time by any Other Name
" Bryan Rennie. Part III: Eliade's Methodology III.A. Eliade "Methodological Remarks on the Study of Religious Symbolism
" Mircea Eliade "Raffaele Pettazzoni as Exemplar
" Mircea Eliade "Foreword from Shamanism
" Mircea Eliade III.B. Critiques of Eliade "Distinguishing Religious Phenomena
" Douglas Allen "Sermons from a Man on a Ladder
" Edmund Leach "Eliade on Buddhism
" Richard Gombrich "In Nostro Tempore: on Mircea Eliade
" R. J. Zwi Werblowski "Some Theoretical Problems
" Ivan Strenski. Part IV: Problems and Themes in Eliade's Thought: IV.A. History and Historicism "The Terror of History
" Mircea Eliade "Historical Events and Structural Meaning in Tension
" Mircea Eliade "Eliade and History
" Douglas Allen "How Historical is the History of Religions
" Robert Segal "Mircea Eliade as 'anti-historian' of Religion
" Gilford Dudley III IV.B. Eliade and Postmodernism "Eliade and Postmodernism
" Bryan Rennie IV.C. Eliade's Literature "On Reading Eliade's Stories as Myths for Moderns
" Mac Linscott Ricketts "The Disguises of Miracle
" Matei Calinescu IV.D. Eliade's Religion "The Secret Nostalgia of Mircea Eliade for Paradise
" Ansgar Paus "Orthodox Mystical Tradition and the Comparative Study of Religion
" A. F. C. Webster IV.E. Eliade's Politics "Blind Pilots
" Mircea Eliade "Meditation on the Burning of Cathedrals
" Mircea Eliade