Encyclopedia Entries
Questions of
the nature of religious culture and of myths and mystical experiences. Eliade’s analysis of rites of passage, rituals marking key transitional moments in the life cycle (e.g., birth, adult initiation, death), influenced many anthropologists.
Reading
The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949),
The Sacred and the Profane (1959),
A History of Religious Ideas (3 vol., 1978–85)
Alchimia Asiatică,(1935)Yoga: Essai sur les origines de la mystique indienne, (1936)
Cosmologie si alchimie babiloniana, (1937)
Comentarii la legenda meşterului Manole, (1943)
Techniques du yoga, (1948)
Traité d'histoire des religions, (1949)
Le Chamanisme, (1951)
From Primitives To Zen
Novels:
The Forbidden Forest (1955)
The Old Man and the Bureaucrats (1979).
Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion (16 vol., 1986).