Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the...

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  • Mar 13, 1907

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  • Apr 22, 1986

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Year Award Winning work (e.g. a book or performance) Notes/Description
  • 1988
  • Macmillan
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