What’s wrong with symbols? Revisiting Mircea Eliade in the 21st century
This article argues that today’s scholars of religion need to stop ignoring symbols and symbolization and seriously revisit Eliade’s contributions to the symbolic dimension of religion. This article also suggests that this revisitation of Eliade would benefit greatly if it simultaneously made use of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Romanian Association for the History of Religions
2011
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Archaeus
Year: 2011, Volume: XV, Issue: 1+02, Pages: 161-185 |
| Further subjects: | B
Eliade
B Symbolism B active imagination B Symbols B imaginational empowerment B Symbolization B paranormal phenomena B Stigmatization |
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| Summary: | This article argues that today’s scholars of religion need to stop ignoring symbols and symbolization and seriously revisit Eliade’s contributions to the symbolic dimension of religion. This article also suggests that this revisitation of Eliade would benefit greatly if it simultaneously made use of the many excellent scholarly studies of symbols and symbolization that have been published during the last twenty years or so by linguists, paleoanthropologists, ethologists, cognitive neuroscientists, theologians, and psychologists. This paper concludes by revisiting Eliade’s persistent fascination with the paranormal and suggests some ways that revalorizing both the symbolic and the paranormal might be productive directions for further research |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Archaeus
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