Eliade on diplomatic service in London
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4373089 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mac Linscott Ricketts (L-3 Communications (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 346-354 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.religion.2008.05.017 |
| OpenAlex | W2029810380 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
It was in England that Mircea Eliade started writing the volume which would be published nearly a decade later as Traite d’histoire des religions (Patterns in Comparative Religion), as attested by the book's Avant-propos de l’auteur, dated ‘Oxford 1940/Paris 1948.’ Eliade also states in his autobiography (1988, p. 84) that ‘I read, took notes, and elaborated a plan of a vast synthesis of the morphology and history of religions, a synthesis I had glimpsed instantaneously in an air raid shelter during an alarm.’ In order to recreate the historical and political environment in which Eliade conceived and began to write his fundamental theoretical book, I have sketched the history of Great Britain's early involvement in World War II, the dramatic political events in Romania during Eliade's diplomatic service in London, and the British government's intrigues that held him a virtual ‘captive’ from September 1940 to February 19411
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| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |