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...Mircea Eliade...
...Mircea Eliade remains one of the world's great authorities on the myths and symbols of religion. Teaching and writing (more than 50 books), he has always had a sympathetic ear for the exotic, and even erotic, spiritual quests of the young. In this candid autobiography, covering his first 30 years, the historian portrays himself as a scapegrace whose enormous appetite for life embraced both the intellectual and the sensual...
...Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade...
...village: one entire world, with scaled-down continents (Disneyland, like the outside world has seven major bodies of water), all psychological states can be experienced in the space of a day, but a day is not a day in Disneyland, since time stops. And Disneyland also gives expression to Mircea Eliade's concept of illo tempore, a timeless realm in which the primary acts of reality are acted out continuously. And finally, the five dollar ticket entitles the decent citizen to enter the realms of American Jungian archetypes--the Mark Twain, Mainstreet USA, Tomorrowland, Pluto, Goofy, Abraham Lincoln--all implanted...
...MIRCEA ELIADE, 59, Rumanian Orthodox, professor of the history of religions and the world's leading authority on ancient mythology (TIME, Feb. 11). "I teach," says Rumanian-born Eliade, "without any theological implications, and they accept it here." >NATHAN SCOTT, 40, Episcopalian, professor of theology and literature. A Detroit Negro educated at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Scott did a stint of teaching at Howard before going to Chicago in 1955. His books include studies on Camus and Beckett...