The problem of man in the religious and mythological teachings of Mircea Eliade

Abstract

Mircea Eliade is a Romanian cultural philosopher, religion scholar, mythologist and writer. This study discusses the far from one-sided classical methods of research by M. Eliade. His concepts of spiritual values are important for Eastern and Western religious studies, philosophy, cultural and literary studies. It is necessary to use applied religious studies and myths bald facts to understand Eliade’s records. He explains in detail the meaning of religious structure and phenomena and also notes that mythical and cultural symbols enlighten a person and give an intuitive understanding of the principles of life in his writings. Such intuitive cultural instincts have their own inner reality. In conditions of restricting creative freedoms and spiritual decline, a person can overcome everything through the “inner cultural reality”. Thus, Eliade’s conception hopes to find something at the origins of true religious life. The concept of “god” was replaced by the word “sacred” in the religious project of the thinker. It is said that for the full disclosure of the meaning of “sacred” it is necessary to look from the rationality and irrationality point of view. Coming to the fore “planetary humanism”, which M. Eliade dreamed of, that is, the absolute amorphous sacred reality proves that it is sacred and unique due to its qualitative structure.