The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life. This is not only because an understanding of exotic and… - Mircea Eliade

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The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life. This is not only because an understanding of exotic and archaic religions will significantly assist in a cultural dialogue with the representatives of such religions. It is more especially because … the history of religions will inevitably attain to a deeper knowledge of man. It is on the basis of such knowledge that a new humanism, on a world-wide scale, could develop.

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About Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

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[...]Tinerii aceştia vor păstra întotdeauna faţă de femei o atitudine confuză, lipsită de perspective şi de nuanţe. Într-o continuă disponibilitate conjugală, ei vor privi femeia sexual şi sentimental, adică posesiv. Cred că le-ar fi greu să cunoască o femeie frumoasă, fară să aibă îndată un joc mental — de imaginaţie sau de tactică — orientat sexual. Oricâte femei ar cunoaşte şi ar avea, nu vor intui totuşi decât un singur tip (sau o singură faţetă) feminin: soaţa, femeia asupra căreia el are drepturi legale. O camaradă, o prietenă, o colaboratoare, o amantă, o maestră sau o elevă (in dragoste) — le sunt inaccesibile.

"Yet it is worth noting that in this example we never witness a complete desacralization of the world, for in the Far East what is called the "esthetic emotion" still retains a religious dimension, even among intellectuals. But the example of the miniature gardens shows us in what direction and by what means the desacralization of the world is accomplished. We need only imagine what an esthetic emotion of this sort could become in a modern society, and we shall understand how the experience of cosmic sanctity can be rarefied and transformed until it becomes a purely human emotion — that, for example, of art for art's sake."

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În literatură, oamenii elementari, cu pasiuni puternice, dominați de un singur viciu sau oarecum maniaci, par vii și autentici. Ceilalți, mai ales oamenii buni, blânzi, inteligenți și, în primul rând, oamenii preocupați de probleme morale, par fazi, fără contur, lipsiți de personalitate. În fond, literar vorbind, sunt neinteresanți.

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