RELIGST 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mircea Eliade, Clifford Geertz, Comparative Religion

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3F03
• Professor: Philippa Carter

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Associate professor | chair of the department of religious studies. Seminars rotate among fields of study (asian, biblical, western / rel culture, philos. Poli : next year : asian, & philos poli + relig) Can apply for funding a year before the program: http://www. sshrc-crsh. gc. ca/funding-financement/apply-demande/index-eng. aspx, due december 1st, 2016. The interpretive turn: mircea eliade & clifford geertz. Post-war generation; eliade succesor of -- geertz succesor of early socio sci. Eliade was born in bucharest, romania in 1907. Became interested in right-wing politics during his time there. Eliade"s involvement with the political right proved to be a perpetual stain on his reputation following his death in 1986. Eliade"s interest shifted from european renaissance philosophy to indian thought. 1928-1932 studied at the university of calcutta. One of the first to actually travel to the location of study. Defended his dissertation on yoga in the philosophy department at u. of bucharest in.