Autobiography, Volume1 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West by MirceaEliade 347 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14948-6, ISBN: 0-226-14948-X
"volumes on a shelf, but I had persuaded him that I read them only during my
spare time. ... would come to turn out the light, he would find me working some
math problem or writing a theme for the next day (because I would start my
homework only ... I I I That year, 1918—1919 ... we had not yet studied at school
—and as though I were writing for someone like myself to read, not for a teacher
or for a grade."
Autobiography, Volume1(1st Edition) 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West by MirceaEliade, Mac Linscott Ricketts Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20407-9, ISBN: 0-226-20407-3
""Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of religions. Autobiography follows an apparently ..."
A History of Religious Ideas, Volume1 From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by MirceaEliade 508 Pages, Published 1981 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14769-7, ISBN: 0-226-14769-X
"Krabinger, vol. 1, pp. 271–72 = Aristotle, frag. 15 Rose; after the translation by
Jeanne Croissant, Aristote et les Mystères [Paris, 1932], p. 137). A parallel text,
transmitted by Psellus and published by J. Bidez, Catalogue des manuscrits
alchimiques grecs (1928), vol. 6, p. 171, has been fully analyzed by Croissant, pp
. 145ff. On the passage from Themistius, see, most recently, Mylonas, Eleusis, pp.
264 ff. There is an excellen ..."
"When St. Paul and St. Peter reached Rome they encountered a state-sponsored religion that had been established for centuries. Amid the shrines and temples of Rome, the Romans sought to preserve and strengthen a religion especially suited to the ambitious city. But Roman religion had also proved permeable to many influences, from Greece, Egypt, Persia, and other parts of Italy. What then was truly Roman, and what had Romans done with the ..."
""No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review "
"Volume I in the Essays in Divinity series.
Contains chapters by Joachim Wach, Mircea Elliade, Joseph M. Kitagawa, Charles H. Long, Kees W. Bolle, Thomas J.J. Altizer, Philip H. Ashby, Charles S.J. White, Charles J. Adams, H. Byron Earhart, Jermome H. Long, and Paul Tillich. Elliade's essay, "Cultural Fashions and the History of Religions", is particularly interesting."
001(Updated) History of Religious Ideas, Volume1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mircea. Eliade, Willard R. Trask, Hans Dieter Betz Paperback, 508 Pages, Published 1981 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20401-7, ISBN: 0-226-20401-4
"In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this volume."
Autobiography, Volume 2 1937-1960, Exile's Odyssey by MirceaEliade 248 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-15954-6, ISBN: 0-226-15954-X
"After we had visited Garmisch and Oberammergau, we spent the night at
Rudesheim, and the following day Father Popan let us out of the car in front of the
house of Günther Spaltmann, at Bonn. Spaltmann had translated several of my
books, ..."
"In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas."
History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2(Updated) From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity by MirceaEliade 581 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02735-7, ISBN: 0-226-02735-X
"As for the initiatory rituals, we are reduced to hypotheses. In his essay on the
figured scenes, Friedrich Matz (though following the example of other scholars)
concludes that the central act of the initiation consisted in the unveiling of a
phallus hidden in a winnowing fan (liknon).'4 It is probable that this scene, which
is abundantly illustrated, had a ritual importance, but Boyancé has cogently
shown that the texts mention the ..."
"Among Library Journal's picks of the most important reference works of the millennium - with the Encyclopedia Judaica and the New Catholic Encyclopedia - Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion won the American Library Associations' ..."
"A History of Religious Ideas: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity v. 2 In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are e ..."
"This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to r ..."
"Under attack , and desirous of more solitude for prayer and writing , Symeon
resigned as abbot in 1005 . ... There he passed thirteen years in the small
monastery of Saint Marina in prayer and writing , dying in 1022 . ... the end of the
spiritual life and of all Christian ascesis and contemplation , namely , greater
mystical union with the indwelling Trinity . ... But it is Symeon ' s Hymns of Divine
Love , which he completed shor ..."
"One often speaks of traditional authority , scriptural authority , ecclesiastical
authority , or imperial authority based on religious claims . ... Especially
authoritative are myths , as distinguished from legends and fables . ... According
to Bronislaw Malinowski , myth functions as the “ charter " of established social
facts , including religious beliefs and ... the secrets of the tribal tradition : the
myths serve as bearers of ..."
"with its arms bent and turning around the center in cur- vilineal or, more often,
straight movements at right angles (see figure 5). ... to its inhabitants, just as the
labyrinth, after some authors, may have been used in a remote past to trap wild
animals. ... The mythical Minotaur is, thus, also the symbol of the repressed part
of human nature, prerational and vital, which the ... The red thread of Ariadne is a
symbol of memory, ..."