Troy Southgate

Nov 08, 2024

A PILLAR BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY: CELEBRATING MIRCEA ELIADE, VOLUME TWO is now in stock. The book is 160 pages in length and costs just 23 EUROS with free postage to anywhere in the world. Our PayPal address is blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk and you can find more details below. Editor: Troy Southgate / Cover: Francisco Albanese Pastene

FOLLOWING the welcome success of our first volume on the life and work of the great Romanian scholar, Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), this second and final book in the series continues its study of the leading historian of religion by presenting readers with another fascinating collection of articles. In seventeen mouth-watering chapters, a group of well-respected writers and thinkers offer us a fitting tribute to a man who left us with so much in the way of myth and magic.

Chapters include Mircea Eliade: A Brief Look at the Portuguese Years (1941-1945); Evola and Eliade: The Reasons for a Failed Friendship; Mircea Eliade: Traditionalist; Mircea Eliade and the Importance of Myth; Myth for Eliade Gives Value and Meaning to Life; Women and Paradise: Mircea Eliade and Folklore in Romania, the Caucasus and Ireland; Thoughts for a New Humanism: Mircea Eliade’s Anthropological Communitarian) Metanoia; Mircea Eliade and the Myth of the Eternal Return; A Brief Eliadean Analysis of Theodore J. Kacsynski’s Chosen Lifestyle in a Remote Cabin in Relation to Initiation Rituals; The Theatre of Eliade: Between Myth and Politics; Convergences between Mircea Eliade and Nishitani Keiji; The Magic Cosmos: Cosmology and Alchemy in Eliade; Cosmic Religion and Folklore: Mircea Eliade’s Europe; Myths, Dreams, Reflections: The Enlightening Mircea Eliade; Mircea Eliade: Youth without Youth; Mircea Eliade: The Sacred and Existential Politics; and Mircea Eliade’s Homo Religiosus and the Search for Hierophanies through the Practice of Mountain Sports.

The contributors are Troy Southgate, K. R. Bolton, Giovanni Sessa, José Almeida, Francesco Lamendola, Luca Siniscalco, Francisco Albanese, Joakim Andersen, Tommaso Valleri and Alexandr Bovdunov.