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    Mircea Eliade (Romanian: [ˈmirtʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer...
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  • This is a bibliography of works by Mircea Eliade. The Comparative History of Yoga Techniques, 1933 Oceanografie, 1934 Alchimia Asiatică, 1934 Yoga: Essai...
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    specifically experiences that are both fascinating and terrifying) and by Mircea Eliade (focusing on the longing for otherworldly perfection, the quest for...
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    first name Mircea is a traditionally male given name in Romania. She says her father chose the name to honor his favorite professor, Mircea Eliade, with whom...
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  • Hierophany (category Mircea Eliade)
    religious historian Mircea Eliade, who preferred the term to the more constrictive word theophany, an appearance of a god. Eliade argues that religion...
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    is phonologically irregular (note especially the vowel quantities)." Mircea Eliade noted that the Sanskrit word श्रमण, śramaṇa, designating a wandering...
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  • Malinowski, the religious scholar Mircea Eliade thinks one important function of myth is to provide an explanation for ritual. Eliade notes that, in many societies...
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  • idea for interpreting religious behavior proposed by the historian Mircea Eliade; it is the belief that through ritual practices (sometimes implicitly...
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  • Gnosticism and Renaissance magic, he was encouraged and befriended by Mircea Eliade, though he gradually distanced himself from his mentor. Culianu published...
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    Mircea Eliade National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național Mircea Eliade) is a high school located at 1 Decembrie Street #31, Sighișoara, Romania. The...
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    connection between Heaven and Earth" or the "higher and lower realms". Mircea Eliade introduced the concept in the 1950s. Axis mundi closely relates to the...
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    pattern. According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to "the...
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    of patristics and Orthodox priest, who was a friend of Mircea Eliade and published in Eliade's journal Zalmoxis, which appeared in the 1930s.[citation...
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  • recontextualized by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Kurt Gödel, Mircea Eliade, and Magdalena Villaba; otherwise, the word "transmigration" is more...
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    often set in a dim and nonspecific past that historian of religion Mircea Eliade termed in illo tempore ('at that time'). Creation myths address questions...
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  • Na Hanyate (category Mircea Eliade)
    Eliade's visit to India. Mircea Eliade came to study under Maitreyi Devi's father in Kolkata in 1930. She was 16 then, and Eliade 23. Her father was very...
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  • Thomas J. J. 1968. Mircea Eliade and the Dialectic of the Sacred. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. ISBN 978-083-7171-96-8. Eliade, Mircea. 1987. The Sacred...
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  • The Bengali Night (category Films based on works by Mircea Eliade)
    la Nuit Bengali) is a 1988 semi-autobiographical film based upon the Mircea Eliade 1933 Romanian novel, Bengal Nights, directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring...
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    ro), a research facility for pomology. Eliade, Mircea. Mircea Eliade. 1990, page 283. Eliade, Mircea. Mircea Eliade. 1990, page 285. Sebastian y el mentor...
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  • Bengal Nights (category Works by Mircea Eliade)
    written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade. It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting India at the time...
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  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (category Works by Mircea Eliade)
    shamanism around the world written by the Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade. It was first published in France by Librarie Payot under the French...
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  • intellectual Mircea Eliade was invited by her father to stay at their house. After several months, when her parents discovered the 23-year-old Eliade and Devi...
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    The twentieth-century scholars Karel Werner, Thomas McEvilley, and Mircea Eliade believed that the central figure of the Pashupati seal is seated in...
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  • Miss Christina (category Works by Mircea Eliade)
    Domnișoara Christina) is a 1936 horror novella by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. It depicts a paranormal romance between a strigoi and a regular human...
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    attributes of various beasts or power animals. Religious historian Mircea Eliade has observed that beliefs regarding animal identity and transformation...
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    15, augustinus.it (in Latin) Mircea Eliade Encyclopedia of Religion Macmillan Publishing (1986) p. 282 Mircea Eliade Encyclopedia of Religion Macmillan...
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    world of spirit is accessed through religious ecstasy. According to Mircea Eliade shamanism is a "technique of religious ecstasy". Shamanism involves...
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  • Eliade, Mircea (1996). Patterns in Comparative Religion (2nd ed.). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8032-6733-6. Eliade, Mircea...
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  • Society portal Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion (1992) Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (1993) Acquaviva, S. S., and Patricia...
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  • during a ritual, and practices divination and healing. According to Mircea Eliade, shamanism encompasses the premise that shamans are intermediaries or...
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