“Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.”
“Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.”
“Light does not come from light, but from darkness.”
“I don’t want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.”
born: March 9, 1907 Bucharest, Romania
died: April 22, 1986 Chicago, Illinois, United States
historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and writer of novels, novellas, and short tales. Eliade used to be some of the influential scholars of religion of the twentieth century and one of the most world’s ideal interpreters of spiritual symbolism and fantasy.Eliade wrote many popular books, such as The Sacred and the Profane (1959), and printed collections of articles, mostly on myth and symbolism, in books such as Myth and Reality (1963) and The Quest (1969). His most bold and difficult novel is Forêt interdite (1955; The Forbidden Forest), which he thought to be his literary masterpiece. This novel takes place between 1936 and 1948 and comprises a few of Eliade’s views on the historic tragedy and future of the Romanian people. It additionally reveals Eliade’s key mythical and symbolic transhistorical structures and meanings and the central perception that religious meanings are hidden and camouflaged in recent Western experiences.Eliade always kept a journal, and he printed autobiographical volumes and collections of essays containing private reflections on his personal life and works as well as on scholarly, non secular, social, and political tendencies in Romania and the world. These books include Autobiography. Vol. I: 1907–1937 (1981) and Autobiography. Vol. II: 1937–1960 (1988); Journal I, 1945–1955 (1990), Journal II, 1957–1969 (1989; at the start published as No Souvenirs, 1977), Journal III, 1970–1978(1989), and Journal IV, 1979–1985 (1990); and Ordeal by Labyrinth (1982).
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