Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Critique
1. Building on Eliade's Magnificent Failure
Roger Corless
2. Methods, Theories, and the Terrors of History: Closing the Eliadean Era with Some Dignity
Russell T. McCutcheon
3. Are There Modern Myths?
Robert A. Segal
Part II: Philosophy
4. Eliade, Subjectivity, and Hermeneutics
Tim Murphy
5. The Phenomenology of Mircea Eliade
Allan W. Larsen
6. Eliade, the Comparative Method, Historical Context, and Difference
Carl Olson
Part III: Literature
7. The United States' Response to Mircea Eliade's Fiction
Mac Linscott Ricketts
8. Romantic Postmodernism and the Literary Eliade
Rachela Permenter
9. The Man Who Could Read Stones
Mircea Eliade, translated by Mac Lincott Ricketts
Part IV: Personal Reflections
10. Smiles and Whispers: Nostalgic Reflections on Mircea Eliade's Significance for the Study of Religion
N. J. Girardot
11. Methodological, Pedegogical, and Philosophical Reflections on Mircea Eliade as Historian of Religions
Wendell Charles Beane
12. Conversation with an Indian Nationalist and Intermezzo: Fragments from a Civil Revolt
Mircea Eliade, Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts
Part V: Applications
13. Mircea Eliade's View of the Study of Religion as the Basis for Cultural and Spiritual Renewel
Douglas Allen
14. Eliade's Interpretation of Sacred Space and Its Role Toward the Cultivation of Virtue
David Cave
15. The Concept of World Habitation: Eliadean Linkages with a New Comparativism
William E. Paden
Part IV: Conclusion
16. The Meaning and End of Eliade
Bryan Rennie
Bibliography
Contributors
Subject Index
Name Index