The Concept of the Coincidentia Oppositorum in the Thought of Mircea Eliade

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-901x|28|1|31-41

ISSN: 0034-4125

Source: Religious Studies, Vol.28, Iss.1, 1992-03, pp. : 31-41

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Abstract

Eliade, the well-known and prolific historian of religion, has himself of late become an object of intense study. In his endeavours he sought to uncover the deeper, trans-historical meaning of religious expression. He introduced the term ‘creative hermeneutics’ in his more recent writings, and was most intent on discovering what the religious phenomena ‘had to say’.