...Alf Hiltebeitel Mythologies du XXe siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade) . By Daniel Dubuisson . Lille : Presses Universitaires de Lille . 1993 . 348 pp. 130 FF. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 494 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES in most films (one...

...Hugh B. Urban Abstract The marketplace and the temple: traditionally, Western scholars have been nervous and ambivalent about bringing these two spheres into too close a proximity. On one side, historians of religions trained in the lineage of Joachim Wach or Mircea Eliade have long warned...

...Firdaus Azim BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1035 Bengal Nights: A Novel. By MlRCEA ELIADE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 176 pp. $9-95 (paper). // Does Not Die: A Romance. By M A I T R E Y I D E V I . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 264 pp. $10.95 (paper). Originally published...

...Charles S. J. White Two Tales of the Occult . By Mircea Eliade . Translated from the Rumanian by William Ames Coates . New York : Herder and Herder , 1970 . xiii, 130 pp. Introduction by the author. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS...

... that is not already known from numerous and easily available sources. Mar\ Hop\ins College BlSHNU POUDEL Two Tales of the Occult. By MIRCEA ELIADE. Translated from the Rumanian by William Ames Coates. New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. xiii, 130 pp. Introduction by the author. $5.00. It is remarkable, as the author...

..., Davis The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. By D A V I D GORDON W H I T E . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xviii, 596 pp. $59-95 (cloth). "Not since Eliade has anyone written as knowledgeably and competently about alchemy, Tantra, and other esoteric traditions...

... that it is a consistent and scarcely veiled ascetic strain in his cosmology of "rien" and his "meditiation centree sur l'inanite du 'moi' " (p. 205). It is implied that it affects Levi-Strauss's mythography, but its implications for studying Indian myth are not considered. Dubuisson finds Eliade's work on India replete...

... Mircea Eliade's "Creative Hermeneutics," Anne Hunt Overzee attempts to interpret and translate in an evocative manner this symbol's "inherent integrative structure of wholeness" so that it can continue "working," "enabling the symbol to 'speak' once again to our contemporary situation" (p. 6). In accord...

... Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India. By D A V I D GORDON W H I T E . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xviii, 596 pp. $59-95 (cloth). "Not since Eliade has anyone written as knowledgeably and competently about alchemy, Tantra, and other esoteric traditions of medieval India," says...

.... Quintessentially, chapter 2 introduces a cost-benefit analysis of mediumship. The call to this profession is similar to the shamanic illness described in Mircea Eliade's seminal text Shamanism . 17 In the context of Four Palace mediumship, the call is explained in terms of karmic debt owed to a specific spirit...

... 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1037 past, drawing the girl and the woman together through a memory of a love affair. Eliade had written in his native language and his book reveals Indian/Bengali culture through a woman to his countrymen performing an anthropological task. Maitreyi has also written...

... Carolina Press, 1991. xii, 208 pp. $34.95. This book, inspired by Paul Wheatley and Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago, where the author was a student, goes beyond these scholars' works by exploring not only the imperial-official versions of the sacred city but also those of the common people...

... scholars who are unsympathetic to the comparative enterprise have disparagingly referred to as parallelomania. Those who seek a comparative history of ideas of the kind that Nakamura presents would do well to consult, either as a substitute or as a supplement, Mircea Eliade's more recent multivolume series...

... history of ideas of the kind that Nakamura presents would do well to consult, either as a substitute or as a supplement, Mircea Eliade's more recent multivolume series, The History of Religious Ideas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 Eliade's work, which covers much of the same ground...

... of “structuralism” as it is in vogue with Lévi-Strauss, Eliade, Dumézil, etc., see pp. 118 –38. Cf. also Smith P. and Sperber D. , “ Mythologiques de Georges Dumézil ,” Annales, économies, sociétés, civilisations , 26 ( 1971 ), 559 –86; Greimas A. J. , Dit sens: essais sémiotiques...

...), and carrying out a miniature village study. In his fourth chapter, which deals with the importance of mountains in Japanese folk religion, his style is encyclopaedic at the outset, and the influence of Mirecea Eliade is much in evidence. In Chapter I, entitled "Main Features of Folk Religion in Japan...

... Peter L. 1967 . The Sacred Canopy . Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday . Béteille André . 1971 . Caste, Class, and Power . Berkeley : University of California Press . Bhattacharyya Sibajiban . 1987 . “Indian Philosophies.” In Eliade Mircea , ed., Encyclopedia of Religion , 7...

... ethnography to Eliade's reconstruction of classic Inner Asian shamanism. Nicholas Allen examines ritual journeys, viewing them as a major category contrasting with ecstatic flights. Andras Hofer contributes an intriguing speculation that the common "Hindu" possession of laics is conditioned by the development...

...-Milwaukee The Dragons of Tiananmen: Beijing as a Sacred City. By JEFFREY F. MEYER. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xii, 208 pp. $34.95. This book, inspired by Paul Wheatley and Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago, where the author was a student, goes beyond these scholars...

...). Some modern readers may disagree with the last clause; it seems certain that this very diction is the crux of tantric homiletics and that it could not have been "touched upon more tactfully." Most of the erotic diction is sandhabhdsa or intentional language, about which Mircea Eliade says "it projects...