Tabla de Contenidos: “….-- Der philosophische Sinn der Reformation.-- Mircea Eliade…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frazer -- Religion and personality / Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred / Émile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation / Karl Marx -- A source of social action / Max Weber -- The reality of the sacred / Mircea Eliade -- Society's "construct of the heart" / E. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- One Knows the Tree by the Fruit That It Bears:” Mircea Eliade’s Influence on Current Far-Right Ideology -- The Presbyterian Church and Zionism Unsettled: Its Antecedents, and Its Antisemitic Legacy -- Israel and Zionism in the Eyes of Palestinian Christian Theologians -- Religiosity, Religious Practice, and Antisemitism in Present-Day Hungary -- Rethinking the Role of Religion in Arab Antisemitic Discourses -- The Centrality of Antisemitism in the Islamic State’s Ideology and Its Connection to Anti-Shiism -- Antisemitism in the Muslim Intellectual Discourse in South Asia…”

“…En este fascinante libro Mircea Eliade enfatiza la importancia y la función que puede cumplir el estudio de la historia de las religiones en una sociedad secularizada. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gaster -- Cosmogonic myth and "sacred history" / Mircea Eliade -- An ideological dichotomy : myths and folk beliefs among the Shoshoni / Åke Hultkrantz -- The creation myths of the North American Indians / Anna Birgitta Rooth -- The cultural-historical background of myths on the separation of sky and earth / K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Let the Earth Shake: From Crisis-Born Hero to Master of Civilizational Crisis -- Chapter 1 The Decline of the West (1908-1929): The Rupture of Time in Modernity and the Rise of the Prophets of Crisis -- 1 Student Years under Fascism and the Guidance of a Spiritual Prophet of Crisis -- 2 The Arrow of Progress and the Unification of a Ruptured Modernity in Need of Orientation -- 3 The Crisis of the First World War and the Rise of Oswald Spengler's Cultural Pessimism -- Chapter 2 Civil Religion (1929-1335): The Return to Something New as Modernist Alternative to Mircea Eliade's Politics of Nostalgia -- 1 Rudolf Otto and the Return to Religion as Experience -- 2 Mircea Eliade's Politics of Nostalgia and the Rebirth of Western Civilization -- 3 An Alternative to the Politics of Nostalgia: Modernism and the Dialectic Conception of Palingenesis as the Return to Something New -- 4 Questioning the Rupture of Modernity from a Dialectical Perspective: The Self-Secularization of Religion and the Self-Mythicization of Politics -- Chapter 3 The Crisis of the Presence (1936-1944): The Antifascist Sacralization of Politics and the Rise of Magical Thinking during WWII -- 1 The Antifascist Turn in the Laterza Circle and the Continued Sacralization of Politics -- 2 The Crisis of the Presence: Extreme States of Consciousness in Primitive Societies and the Shamanizing of Hitler in Europe -- 3 The Dark Side of the Soul Resurfaces in Religious Studies: The Split between the Insider-Phenomenological and the Outsider-Explanatory Approaches -- 4 The Savior of the European Sciences: The Redemption of the Presence and the Unifying Power of Magic -- Chapter 4 De-historification (1944-1948): Shamanic Magic and the Dialectic Movement between Mircea Eliade and Claude Lévi-Strauss…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Old and New Mechanisms of Orientalisation in the Regional and Transnational Dimensions(Tomasz Zarycki) -- 4 Colonial Ambivalence and its Aftermath: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Independent Poland and Ireland(Róisín Healy) -- 5 The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualization of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement(Raul Cârstocea) -- 6 Reportage from the (Post-)Contact Zone: Polish Travellers to Decolonised India (1950-1980)(Agnieszka Sadecka) -- 7 An East Central European “Sahib” in a Former Colony: Andrzej Bobkowski in Guatemala(Jagoda Wierzejska) -- 8 Regained Landscapes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Alleviating the Eliade effect: Neil McMullin's critique of Mircea Eliade's regnant discourse in the study of religion / The Encyclopedia of Religion: a critique from the perspective of the history of the Japanese religious traditions / Letters to the editors / Response to G.L. …”
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“…La synthèse des éléments essentiels dégagés dans le parcours de mille sept cents pages confirme la pensée de Mircea Eliade estimant que l'histoire des religions est susceptible de nous ouvrir à un nouvel humanisme, voire d'esquisser une nouvelle anthropologie religieuse. …”

“…En ellos abundan las anotaciones íntimas y personales —el insomnio atroz que lo persiguió siempre, encuentros con amigos como Eugène Ionesco o Mircea Eliade y feroces retratos de la vida literaria—, al tiempo que descubrimos interesantísimas incursiones en los temas que no dejaron de obsesionarle nunca: su escepticismo radical, la desesperación convertida en arte, la música de Bach o la literatura como única forma de redención…”

“…Sin dalle primissime pagine del suo La nascita mistica, Mircea Eliade indica, con definitiva limpidità di sguardo, le due fondamentali caratteristiche dell’iniziazione: il suo consistere, alla lettera, in un cambiamento radicale dell’uomo, che in quanto iniziato appunto inizia un’esistenza ontologicamente imparagonabile a quella precedente, e la sua pressoché totale scomparsa nel mondo moderno (il mondo per eccellenza antiiniziatico perché nella sua essenza controiniziatico?). …”

“…Es steht außer Frage, dass keines der philosophischen Systeme in der Lage gewesen ist, uns »gegen den Schrecken der Geschichte zu verteidigen« (Mircea Eliade). Aber wie sollen wir unser Leben immer noch als geschichtliches begreifen, zumal wenn Geschichte weiterhin exzessiv gewaltförmig vonstattengeht und keinerlei Ausgleich für äußerste Ungerechtigkeit in Aussicht stellt? …”

“…Pals analiza las interpretaciones de la religión de nueve pensadores sin los cuales sería imposible comprender la cultura intelectual de la era moderna: Edward Burnett Tylor y James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, E. E. Evans-Pritchard y Clifford Geertz.Cada capítulo del libro aborda una teoría y analiza la perspectiva de sus autores, expone sus principales conceptos, los valora críticamente y aporta una guía bibliográfica para ampliar la información. …”

“…Unlike his famous Romanian contemporaries, scholar Mircea Eliade, dramatist Eugène Ionescu, and philosopher Emil Cioran, who lived abroad, Constantin Noica did not leave communist Romania. …”