Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a Romanian-born historian of religions and a novelist whose works were known in translation the world over. Mircea Eliade began his life in Bucharest March 9, 1907. While still studying in the lycée he wrote...

Mircea Eliade, a leading scholar of religions and an acclaimed novelist, was a prominent member of the generation of 1927 that became active in Romania during the late 1920s and dominated the cultural scene throughout the 1930s and most of the 1940s....

ELIADE, MIRCEA [FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS]. Since his death in 1986 Eliade's status has been problematic and the value of his contribution to the academic study of religion has been widely debated. His presence in the English-speaking academic...

ELIADE, MIRCEA [FIRST EDITION] (1907–1986), Romanian-born historian of religions, humanist, orientalist, philosopher, and creative writer. The career of Mircea Eliade, who served as editor in chief of this encyclopedia, was long and...

Mircea Eliade (March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established...

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[The] literary work of Mircea Eliade presents itself to us open to a global understanding, through the well-armed and lucid critical spirit of its author. We misjudge the creative personality of this Romanian author if we place the accent exclusively on his vast and solid scientific work. The fundamental elements of his complex subject in the field of scholarship, the search for and comprehension of homo religiosus, are present in his literary creation: Mythos, Eros, Thanatos, and Logos are the fundamental ...

One feels confident that additional translations … of Eliade's literary oeuvre will be recognized as imperative in the English speaking world for understanding the relationship between the scientific and artistic motivations of the man who has in a special way reopened access for modern sensibility to the mythic and the religious. (p. 717) As [examples of the genre littérature fantastique], they are excellent stories, affording moments of delicious horripilation. Particularly, "T...

I think it will be evident to any attentive reader [of Tales of the Occult] that I wanted to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the literary genre of a mystery story. In both novelettes ["The Secret of Dr. Honigberger" and "Nights at Serampore"] a number of important personages are real. (p. ix) However, throughout these two tales I have carefully introduced a number of imaginary details, in order to awaken in any caut...