लेखक: Mircea Eliade

Notes from the Other Side of Night is a diary-memoir written upon Juliana Geran Pilon’s return to her native Romania in 1975, which she had left along with her family when she was just fourteen. …

In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920’s Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to ‘suck out all the marrow of …

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Înfăptuind vechiul proiect al profesorului său, I.P. Culianu a publicat Dicționarul în 1990. De atunci acesta a fost tradus în peste douăzeci de limbi și este un bestseller mereu reeditat. Dicționaru …

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying …

The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, …

Este libro es fruto de un contacto directo con la India, y constituye un precioso testimonio sobre la civilización y la espiritualidad orientales. Pocos escritores europeos han penetrado tan …

Eroul cărții este un doctor în arta extrem-orientală, ce părăsise țara sa de miazănoapte pentru a-și continua cercetările în India. E, în mod evident, un alter ego al autorului, iar personajele, deco …

Detailing a fascinating, hitherto unknown period in the life of one of the twentieth century’s preeminent intellectuals, The Portugal Journal was written by Mircea Eliade from 1941–1945, when he …

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an …

Mircea Eliade–one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic–shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discu …

Un testo che è un vero trattato sulle origini del pensiero religioso magico nel corso dei secoli e dei millenni. Un testo che rivela cosa A distanza di sessant'anni dalla sua …

În perioada dominată de triumfurile raționalismului științific, cum socotim succesul extraordinar al unor mișcări oculte precum astrologia sau renașterea vrăjitoriei? Din perspectiva sa de istoric al …

Prenant la suite des Hooligans (publié à L’Herne en 1987), Retour du paradis ouvre une série de romans que Mircea Eliade a consacré sa génération. Les personnalités multiples et souvent …

In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to …

“Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.”—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book Review   This extraordinary work …

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern …

Primitive man’s discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the …

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his …

"Here finally are Eliade’s memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett’s crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early …

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that …

"Here finally are Eliade’s memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett’s crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early …

Journal IV is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced …

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his …