Reading and responding to Mircea Eliade's History of religious ideas: the lure of the late Eliade.
John R. Mason
- Lewiston(NY) : Edwin Mellen Press, c1993.
- iv,121p.; 24cm.
Includes index.
Contents: I. The Last War Against Sleep -- A. Eliade's Path Toward a History of Religious Ideas -- B.A Strategy for Reading an Unfinished History -- 1. Anthropology -- 2. Seminology -- 3. Morphology of Civilizational Complexes -- 4. Comparative Symbolics -- 5. Normative Judgments -- a. Urge Toward the Universal -- b. Emphasis on the Esoteric -- c. Preference for the Archaic -- d. Commitment to the Transhistorical -- III. Some Questions for Future Study -- A. The Question of Science -- B. The Question of Goethe -- C. The Question of Fascism -- D. Must Ontology be Archaic? -- IV. Conclusion: The Moon Wanes; The Moon Waxes.