Author

Books by Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was a Romanian-born historian of religions and philosopher whose work shaped the academic study of religion in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1956 until his death and edited the sixteen-volume Encyclopedia of Religion. His major scholarly works include Shamanism, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom, and A History of Religious Ideas. The Sacred and the Profane, originally published in German in 1957, is a condensed introduction to the themes he developed at length in his longer studies. His work has been criticized for political associations in his youth and for sweeping comparative claims that later scholars have contested.