Mircea Eliade, authentic being, and dialogical mapping of lived religiosity

This paper suggests a way to allow religious persons their own voice, seeking to privilege neither the perspective of people claiming to have religious experiences nor that of scholars. Instead of taking Eliade’s claims as absolute they are taken as subjective expressions of the perspective of the r...

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Main Author: Laitila, Teuvo 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Romanian Association for the History of Religions 2011
In: Archaeus
Year: 2011, Volume: XV, Issue: 1+02, Pages: 75-91
Further subjects:B Religious Experience
B Language
B authentic being
B authentic religion
B eal existence
B emic / etic terms
B phenomenology of religion
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