Eliade

British  

/ eˈljaːde /

noun

1. Mircea. 1907–86, Romanian scholar and writer, noted for his study of religious symbolism. His works include Patterns of Comparative Religion (1949)

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Example Sentences

Time disappears and is replaced with what the religious scholar Mircea Eliade calls the “eternal mythical present,” with its heroes and tragedies.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

Like an ancient myth of resurrection, Eliade argued, the Indian Rope Trick used symbols to re-enact events both cosmic and worldly: the origin and end of the universe, the life cycle of death and rebirth.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

Instead we adopt the insight of nearly all traditional societies: that social time is a recurring cycle in which events become meaningful only to the extent that they are what philosopher Mircea Eliade calls “reenactments.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017

Cioran admitted that he had been wrong in his youth, but Eliade could only allow himself to remark that “communism won”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2016

The newspaper was founded by Eliade Radulescu, who also founded the Philharmonic Society and the Romanian Academy, thus giving major impetus to the development of Romanian literature and culture.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.