Mircea Eliade has made meaningful contributions to the academic debate in the field of religion and comparative religious studies. As much as he had scholastic opinion that would find synthesis with, support and defend his thought patterns and argument, so too he had, of almost equal proportions, those who would criticize his scholarship, accusing it of being, amongst others, biased and "revealing uncritical unverifiable generalizations". The scope of this study is to enter that debate, with the intention to specifically focus on and unpack some of the most important concepts that underlie...
Mircea Eliade has made meaningful contributions to the academic debate in the field of religion and comparative religious studies. As much as he had s...