Biographical Metamorphoses in the History of Religion - Moshe Idel and Three Aspects of Mircea Eliade
This paper includes an extended review of Moshe Idel’s Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth (New York: Peter Lang, 2014) through a triple analysis of Eliade’s early literary, epistolary, and academic texts. The paper examines Idel’s analysis of some important themes in Eliade’s research, such as his sh...
| Published in: | Entangled Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2015]
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Entangled Religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eliade, Mircea 1907-1986
/ Idel, Mosheh 1947-
/ Science of Religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Myth
B History of religion B Moshe Idel B Magic B the Iron Guard B Mircea Eliade B sacred and profane |
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| Summary: | This paper includes an extended review of Moshe Idel’s Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth (New York: Peter Lang, 2014) through a triple analysis of Eliade’s early literary, epistolary, and academic texts. The paper examines Idel’s analysis of some important themes in Eliade’s research, such as his shift from understanding religion as magic to its interpretation as myth; the conception of the camouflage of sacred; the notions of androgyny and restoration; and also young Eliade’s theories of death.The paper also discusses Idel’s evaluation of Eliade’s programatic misunderstanding of Judaism and Kabbalah, and also of Eliade’s moral and professional abdication regarding the political and religious aspect of the Iron Guard, a Romanian nationalist extremist and anti-Semitic group he was affiliated with in 1930s. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.v2.2015.A-N |