Mircea Eliade

From Magic to Myth

By:

Moshe Idel

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Paperback / softback

Series:

After Spirituality

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Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade’s attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade’s personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.

Author Biography:

Moshe Idel, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Member of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, and currently President of the World Union of Jewish Studies. Author of Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1988), Messianic Mystics (1998), Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism (2008).

Release date Australia

February 28th, 2014

Author

Moshe Idel

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Series edited by Jonathan Garb
Series edited by Philip Wexler

Edition

New edition

Pages

284

Series

After Spirituality

Dimensions

150x220x18

ISBN-13

9781433120121

Product ID

21765991

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