Secrets, lies, and consequences: a great scholar's hidden past and his protégé's unsolved murder
"In May 1991, having received threats that terrified him, Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-91) entrusted a set of papers to a colleague a week before his killer made good on those threats. Some years later, those papers came into the author's hands and prompted him to write this book. In brief, th...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Eliade, Mircea 1907-1986
/ Romania
/ Science of Religion
/ Eiserne Garde
/ Antisemitism
/ History 1923-1937
B Eliade, Mircea 1907-1986 / Culianu, Ioan P. 1950-1991 / Teacher / Pupil / Murder / History 1974-1991 |
| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion KBK Europe (East) TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Culianu, Ioan P
B Murder victims (Romance language area) Case studies |
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| Summary: | "In May 1991, having received threats that terrified him, Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-91) entrusted a set of papers to a colleague a week before his killer made good on those threats. Some years later, those papers came into the author's hands and prompted him to write this book. In brief, these were English translations of articles that Mircea Eliade (1907-86) - the world's foremost historian of religions - had written in the 1930s. Some articles voiced his support for the Legion of the Archangel Michael, also known as the Iron Guard, Romania's virulently anti-Semitic mystical fascist movement. Other were pieces that spoke warmly and generously about some of Eliade's Jewish colleagues. At the time of his death, Culianu was struggling to publish these articles, which he - and others - saw as the most important evidence concerning Eliade's politics. His attempt to do so, however, encountered fierce resistance from Professor Eliade's widow and most have never appeared in translation. This book explores what those articles reveal about Eliade's past, his subsequent efforts to conceal that past, his complex relations with Culianu, whom he saw as his protégé and heir, and the possible motives for Culianu's shocking murder, which remains unsolved to this day"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0197689108 |