Mircea Eliade and Ioan Petru Culianu Two Different Paradigms in the Study of Religious Facts.

ELIADE, Mircea, 1907-1986; CULIANU, Ioan Petru

In the "reading," made by the disciple Ioan Petru Culianu on the master Mircea Eliade's work and life, we actually distinguish the interpreter's own obsessions and the need of a self-enlightenment regarding the role of the discipline that he practices (history of religions) and the significance of the unpredictable succession of the historical events. "Young Culianu," who is still influenced by Eliade's philosophy, understands the history of religions as a discipline of the existential implications, capable of offering a profound cognition of the human being and of his relations with the world (history) in which he lives. In the last period of his creation, exceeding the modern hermeneutics of the sense, practiced by the master, Culianu interrogates history from an interdisciplinary and systemic position. In his attempt to learn the universal method, a true clavis universalis, applicable to any field of knowledge, Ioan Petru Culianu gradually detaches himself from Eliade's view, unveiling a new paradigm in the study of the religious facts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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