Desacralization and Resacralization in Mircea Eliade’s Vision
Desacralization and Resacralization in Mircea Eliade’s Vision

Summary/Abstract: Desacralization is an ongoing process, a process with a history, a complex process,taking place on many levels and with different consequences, most of them negative in religious terms. Mircea Eliade believes that man and the human societycannot be desecralized absolutely and forever, there may be occultation of thesacred in the profane, but we cannot speak about the total absence of the sacred.The scholar hopes that no religious behavior, no matter how old, can disappearcompletely. In Eliadeʼs view, human fulfi llment, the creative and comprehensiveaffi rmation of man can be achieved only within the relationship with the sacredand in a society shaped according to the religious principles. Dominated by anoptimistic attitude, M. Eliade expressed his confi dence in the creative power ofthe human spirit and in the human success that will keep the creative freedom andpower at all times and he also says that the desacration of the world will be followed by a period of resacration.

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