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Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective Waiting for the Dawn : Mircea Eliade in title: Perspective author: Eliade, Mircea publisher: University Press of Colorado isbn10 | asin: 0870812394 print isbn13: 9780870812392 ebook isbn13: 9780585022062 language: English subject Eliade, Mircea,--1907- , Religion. publication date: 1991 lcc: BL43.E4W34 1991eb ddc: 291/.092 subject: Eliade, Mircea,--1907- , Religion. For Mircea and Christinel Eliade Page iv As so often happens, scientists understand better than many "humanists" the meaning and function of artistic creativity. But we know now that artistic imagination has a mythological, i.e. religious, source. Consequently, a holistic system of knowledgeintegrating the scientific, philosophic, religious, and artistic approaches and creationsmight become again possible in the near future. Of course, this is only a possibility, depending on what men will decide or will be able to do with their future. For the moment, we knowor we only feel, with "fear and trembling"that we are entering into a new era. MIRCEA ELIADE, FROM SPEECH ENTITLED "WAITING FOR THE DAWN" OCTOBER 26, 1982, BOULDER, COLORADO Page v Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective Davíd Carrasco and Jane Marie Law, editors Foreword by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa Photographs by Lawrence G. Desmond University Press of Colorado Page vi Copyright 1985 by Westview Press Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 Revised edition. All rights reserved. Photographs reproduced with permission of Lawrence G. Desmond. Drawing of Mircea Eliade by Michael Wojczuk. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Waiting for the dawn: Mircea Eliade in perspective / Davíd Carrasco and Jane Marie Law, editors; photographs by Lawrence G. Desmond; foreword by Joseph Mitsu Kitagawa. Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87081-239-4 (alk. paper) 1. Eliade, Mircea, 1907- . 2. Religion. I. Eliade, Mircea, 1907- . II. Carrasco, David. III. Law, Jane Marie. BL43.E4W34 1991 291'.092dc20 91-34498 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page vii Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa Prologue: Promise and the Labyrinth Davíd Carrasco Introduction: Other Eliades Davíd Carrasco and Jane Marie Law Part One The Grand Oscillation: Selections from the Oeuvre of Mircea Eliade Waiting for the Dawn Literary Imagination and Religious Structure Sambo From Silkworms to Alchemy A New Humanism Sky, Moon, and Egg Vocation and Destiny: Savant, Not Saint Literature and Fantasy A Terrific Illusionist: The Best! A Terrific Illusionist: The Best! Page viii The Terror of History The Criterion Group: From Freud to Charlie Chaplin Part Two Encounter and Reflection: Essays by Seminar Participants Sacred Space, Historicity, and Mircea Eliade Robert A. Pois Forbidden Forest: Eliade as Artist and Shaman Edward P. Nolan Mircea Eliade: The Self and the Journey Rodney L. Taylor Part Souvenirs Three Mircea Eliade and the "Duration of Life": An Abundance of Souvenirs Davíd Carrasco Renewed Reflections Jane Marie Law Introduction to "In the Shadow of a Lily" Mac Linscott Ricketts In the Shadow of a Lily Mircea Eliade About the Contributors