Harry Oldmeadow

C.G. JUNG & MIRCEA ELIADE: 'PRIESTS WITHOUT SURPLICES'? Reflections on the Place of Myth, Religion and Science in Their Work *

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The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. - Carl Jung

...the history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning. - Mircea Eliade

...the scientific pursuit of religion puts the saddle on the wrong horse, since it is the domain of religion to evaluate science, and not vice verse. - Whitall Perry

Contents

1. The Life and Work of Mircea Eliade

2. Eliade, Jung and ERANOS

3. 'Deprovincializing' European Culture in a 'Crepuscular Era'

4. Science, Religion and Personal Faith