Uses of the androgyne in the history of religions

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-453
Author(s):  
Steven M. Wasserstrom
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

The image of the androgyne was used by historians of religions Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin and Gershom Scholem to refer symbolically to a totality beyond gender differences. The androgyne was identified as perfect man by Eliade, as angel by Corbin, as demon by Scholem (in his interpretation of Walter Benjamin) and as the godhead by their common ancestor Goethe. This article reflects on these uses of the androgyne as they underwrote normative assumptions about the history of religions. Attention is also paid to the uses of the androgyne in related fields, especially fiction and philosophy, in order to understand these expresssions of the androgyne in relation to the history of religions under discussion here.

Opt traduceri mai puțin cunoscute ale lui Mircea Eliade din Aldo Mieli, Raffaele Pettazzoni și Sylvain Lévi

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Andreea Apostu
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Cultural Transfer ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to analyze the way in which Mircea Eliade became, in 1926, a vector of the cultural and scientific transfer between Western Europe and Romania, through his translations of eight fragments from Aldo Mieli, Raffaele Pettazzoni and Sylvain Lévi’s major works. Two out of these eight translations seem to have been ignored to this day by researchers, whilst the others have only been mentioned in passing. The choices made by Eliade, the context in which these translations were published (the journal Orizontul/The Horizon and its public, the precarious state of the history of religions at that time in Romania etc.) and their echoes in Eliade’s works prove that they can be seen as an example of cultural transfer. They also play an important part in the foundation of the history of religions as a discipline in Romania, being, in a way, the textual equivalents of Eliade’s institutional aspiration to found an association and a library for the study of religions, as expressed in his letters to Raffaele Pettazzoni.

Mircea Eliade et l’herméneutique psycho-historique

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Corin Braga
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Culture ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Aby Warburg ◽  
Collective Psyche ◽  
European Civilization

"Mircea Eliade and Psycho-Historical Methodology. Starting from Thomas Kuhn’s seminal work on scientific paradigms, the venerable concept of Weltanschauung (world-vision) can be upgraded in order to reach a psycho-historical understanding of cultural evolutions. In this paper I intend to adapt to contemporary cultural hermeneutics a schema proposed by Nietzsche and developed by Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis. In this model, the relations between the individual consciousness and the unconscious offer the blueprint for describing the dynamics of the collective psyche. The model states that, when a culture (religion, etc.) has been overruled by a new dominant culture (religion), it remains active by way of survivals and reminiscences (Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin) and eventually, after a period of persecution and censorship, it will re-emerge in a new form, transformed by the general principles of the dominant culture but nevertheless contesting and challenging it. I will attempt to show that such a psychohistorical dialectic has occurred six successive times in the history of European civilization. Keywords: psycho-history, Mircea Eliade, remerging cultures, European civilization, history of religions "

Mircea eliade and the ‘history’ of religions

Religion ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Rudolph
Keyword(s):  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Mircea Eliade y la Historia de las Religiones. Lecturas y aportes para una difusión historiográfica / Mircea Eliade and the History of Religions. Readings and Contributions for a Historiographical Dissemination

2017 ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Patricio Iván Pantaleo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Current Analysis ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Significance ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
Made In

This paper has as main purpose to review and discuss the principal contributions made in the field of the history of religions during the 20th century with the emphasis in one of its foremost and more discussed representatives, the Romanian intellectual Mircea Eliade. We shall defend that this field, somewhat marginalized today, offers a general and comparative perspective of the religious phenomenon that enables to highlight its cultural connotations and deep significance, beyond a political and memory viewpoint. This contributes in this way to provide more complexity to current analysis of religion.Key WordsHistory of religions, Mircea Eliade, comparative method.ResumenEste artículo tiene como propósito principal el revalorizar y poner en discusión las aportaciones realizadas en el siglo veinte en el campo de la historia de las religiones, con el acento puesto en uno de sus principales y más discutidos representantes, el intelectual rumano Mircea Eliade. En el texto defendemos que dicho terreno, un tanto marginado hoy, ofrece una óptica generalista y comparativa del fenómeno religioso, lo que que permite el estudio de este en sus connotaciones culturales y en su significado profundo, más allá del punto de vista político y memorial. Se contribuye de ese modo a arrojar complejidad a los análisis actuales sobre la religión.Palabras claveHistoria de las religiones, Mircea Eliade, método comparado.

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