Day: January 5 2021

In this essay, which we publish in full on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of Ioan Petru Culianu's birth (January 5, 1950), the Romanian scholar analyzes the life and works of his teacher Mircea Eliade, taking into account both the biographical and the literary aspects. , as well as obviously his role as a "mystagogue" and initiator as regards the hermeneutic question of the Sacred and of the history of religions.