Douglas Allen

Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analyzes many of the controversial issues in Eliade's treatment of myth, including whether Eliade's approach deals adequately with the relationship between myth and history and how Eliade's anti-modern perspective makes sense of myth in modern culture. A valuable resource for scholars in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, and history, this book enables readers not only to understand "archaic" and "traditional" religious phenomena, but also to make sense of repressed and sublimated myth dimensions in modern secular life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136769443
• Artikelnr.: 39450532

Autorenporträt

Douglas Allen is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy department at the University of Maine. He is the author of Structure and Creativity in Religion (1978) and Culture and Self: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword Preface 1. Eliade's Antireductionism A. The Need
for a New Procedure B. The Irreducibility of the Sacred a. Romanian Roots
b. Antireductionist Claims c. No Purely Religious Phenomena 2.
Reductionistic Critics and Eliade A. All Approaches are Reductionist B.
Nonreductionism Begs the Question C. Technical Analysis of Reductionism and
Eliade's Theory a. Reduction as Simplifying the Complexity b. Theory and
Religious Phenomena or Data c. Scientific Reductionism and Eliade's
Different Interests 3. The Dialectic of the Sacred A. The Sacred and
Transcendence B. The Dialectic of the Sacred a. The Sacred-Proface
Dichotomy and Hierophanic Object b. The Paradoxical Relationship c. The
Dialectical Movement d. Crisis, Evaluation and Choice e. Concealment and
Camouflage C. Religion as an Opening 4. Nature, Cosmos and Religious Bias
A. Nature and Cosmos B. Particular Religious Bias? a. Archaic Religion and
India b. Cosmic Christianity C. Eliade's Personal Faith and His Scholarship
5. Symbolic Language and Structure A. Symbolism: The Language of Myth and
Religion B. Symbolism and Structuralism 6. Characteristics and Functions of
Symbolism A. Characteristics and Functions of Symbolism a. The Logic of
Symbols b. The Multivalence c. The Function of Unification d. The
Expression of Paradoxical and Contradictory Aspects of Reality e. The
Existential Value B. Archetypes C. Symbolism of the Center 7. The Structure
of Myth A. The Definition of Myth B. The Sacred and the Symbolic C. The
General Structure and Function of Myth D. The Cosmogonic Myth E. Myths of
Origins F. Eschatological Myths G. Mythic Renewal 8. Eliade's
Antihistorical Attitudes A. Eliade's Personal Attitudes Toward Time and
History a. Personal Autobiographical Reflections b. Personal Scholarly
Interpretations B. Other Scholars: Eliade Is Antihistorical 9. The Primacy
of Nonhistorical Structures A. Antihistorical Atemporal Essence of Myth and
Religion B. Nonhistorical Structures C. Structures and Meanings Versus
Conditionings and Explanations D. Normative Antihistorical Judgments E. The
Interaction of the Historical and Nonhistorical 10. Camouflage of Sacred in
Modern Profane A. Camouflage of Sacred in Modern Profane B. The Modern
Unconscious C. Modern Western Provincialism 11. Cultural and Spiritual
Renewal A. The Renewal of Modern Human Beings a. Creative Hermeneutics b.
Rediscovering Symbolic and Mythic Structures c. Encounter, Confrontation
and Dialogue B. The Political and the Spiritual C. The Renewal of
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