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Mircea Eliade on Spirituality, Secularity and Religion. Some Thoughts of His Journal
Mircea Eliade on Spirituality, Secularity and Religion. Some Thoughts of His Journal

Author(s): Dorin David
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: Mircea Eliade; spirituality; religion; secularity; deus otiosus; Dexter

Summary/Abstract: If one takes ‘spirituality’ in the main sense: of something belonging to the human spirit, i.e. human culture, one can easily realize that probably any of Eliade’s works is, more or less, about human spirituality. This paper will try to find Eliade’s inner thoughts about human spirit, spiritual life, religion and secularity; this can be done better by analyzing the book Eliade expresses his opinion more freely than anywhere else: his ‘Journal’. Additionally, in order to understand Eliade’s viewpoint about deus otiosus - i.e. a god, once central in a religion, is no longer important, but forgotten - this article will get an unexpected help from Dexter, a character of the TV series with the same name.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 61-66
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English