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

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

The second is hierophany, a term borrowed from University of Chicago legend Mircea Eliade, which means “a manifestation of the sacred or holy.”

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

Mircea Eliade, the religious scholar, would understand what I experienced in that Tokyo bar.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

Among other admirers of this music was Eliade, twin sister of Leonora, and resembling her so closely that even friends could scarcely distinguish her.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert