Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day.

Books written by Mircea Eliade

• The Sacred and the Profane
• The Forge and the Crucible
• Shamanism
• Myth and Reality
• Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
• A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
• A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
• A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms