Background
Eliade, Mircea was born on March 9, 1907 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Gheorghe and Iona (Stonenescu) Eliade.
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In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. A new introduction by David Gordon White provides invaluable insight into Eliade's life and work, highlighting the key moments in Eliade's academic and spiritual education, as well as the personal experiences that shaped his worldview. Yoga is not only one of Eliade's most important books, it is also his most personal--the only one to analyze a religious tradition that he had truly lived.
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"No event in our world is real, my friend. Everything that occurs in this universe is illusory... And in a world of appearances, in which no thing and no event has any permanence, any reality of its ownwhoever is master of certain forces can do anything he wishes..." So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. In "Nights at Serampore," three European scholars, traveling deep into the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the violent murder of a young Hindu wife. In "The Secret of Dr. Honingberger," a respectable Rumanian physician vanishes without a trace after experimenting with yogic techniques in his quest for the legendary invisible world called Shambhala. In Two Strange Tales, author Mircea Eliade combined yogic folklore with the literary genre of the supernatural suspense tale so as to reveal dimensions of experience that are inaccessible to other intellectual approaches. These well-crafted stories will appeal to both lovers of the supernatural and those fascinated by mysticism of the East.
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Eliade, Mircea was born on March 9, 1907 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of Gheorghe and Iona (Stonenescu) Eliade.
Master of Arts, University Bucharest, 1928. Doctor of Philosophy, University Bucharest, 1932. Student, University Calcutta, 1931.
Associate professor faculty letters, Bucharest U., 1933-1939;
cultural attache, Romanian legation, London, England., 1940-1941;
cultural conseiller, Romanian legation, Lisbon, Portugal, 1941-1944;
visiting professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, 1946-1948;
president, Centre Roumain de Recherches, Paris, 1950-1955;
Haskell lecturer, University of Chicago, 1956;
visiting professor of history religion, University of Chicago, 1956-1957;
professor, University of Chicago, 1958-1986;
Swell L. Avery distinguished professor, University of Chicago, 1963-1986. Lecturer universities Rome, Lund, Marburg, Munich, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Padua. Director Zalmoxis Revue des études religieuses, Paris, Bucharest, 1938-1942.
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Member American Society for Study Religion (president 1963-1967), Romanian Writers Society (secretary 1937), Société Asiatique, Frobenius Institut.
Married Georgette C. Cottescu, January 9, 1950.
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