Mircea Eliade and René Guénon: Patterns of Initiation and the “Myth of Affinity”
This article analyses the intellectual relationship between the historian of religions Mircea Eliade and the French esotericist René Guénon. Many scholars have argued for the “the myth of affinity”, a theory according to which Eliade would have subscribed to Guénon’s worldview (Traditionalism). The...
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2024
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Aries
Year: 2024, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-28 |
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