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Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion

By Bryan S. Rennie

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0791427633, 9780791427637, 9780585043289
LCC
BL43.E4 R45 1996
Open Library ID
OL780504M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3129762 bytes)
Pages
308\308
Topic
Religion
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Религиоведение;Общее и сравнительное религиоведени

Description

Reconstructing Eliade is a concept-by-concept analysis of the thought of Mircea Eliade and a re-evaluation of his analysis of religion. It illustrates how a thorough familiarity with Eliade's work can produce an interpretation of his thought as systematic, coherent, and fully rational. Part One provides an analysis of the terms of Eliade's understanding of religion--hierophany, the sacred and the dialectic of the sacred and profane, homo religiosus, myths and symbols--and thus of the meaning of religion implied throughout his work. Part Two inspects various problems which arise in light of this analysis, particularly relativism and the role of commitment. Part Three applies this analysis to certain problems--religion in the modern world and Eliade's unfinished analysis of the modern, the postmodern phenomenon, implicit religion, and various related problems in the study of religion. Far from being outmoded and inadequate, Eliade's thought is suggested to be fertile ground for the reconception of religious realities in the contemporary world.

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