Davíd Carrasco on Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade: ‘Secular mysticism’ and the history of religions

This essay considers the origins of theoretical understanding in lived experience and the implications this principle might have on our understanding of Mircea Eliade’s approach to religion. It inspects possible sources of Eliade’s theoretical understanding of religion in his descriptions of his lived experience and considers whether specifically ‘religious’ experience would be most likely to b...

Mircea Eliade and the Perception of the Sacred in the Profane: Intention, Reduction, and Cognitive Theory

Building upon earlier analysis of Eliade’s ‘sacred’ as ‘the intentional object of human experience that is apprehended as the real’ (Rennie 1996, 21) this article pursues the concept of the apprehension of the sacred in empirical experience as described by Eliade in his discussion of religious symbols. Using a variety of visual analogies an attempt is made to understand what Eliade’s understand...

A Response to Carl Olson's "mircea Eliade, Postmodernism, and the Problematic Nature of Representational Thinking"

In Memoriam: Laurentiu Mircea Popescu (1944–2015)

The world of cellular and molecular medicine is deeply saddened and shocked by the tragic news that Professor Laurentiu Mircea Popescu has passed away due to lung cancer on Monday morning of August 3, 2015. Professor Popescu was a world-recognized leader of cellular and molecular medicine and worked in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, since 1991 before becoming the General Di...

JADA Azarpazhooh Carrasco - Labra , Prakeshkumar Shah

I nvestigators in a study published in 2010 compared the efficacy of nimesulide with that of meloxicam (two nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) in the control of postoperative pain, swelling and trismus after extraction of impacted man-dibular third molars. 1 Among their conclusions , the authors stated that " [nimesu-lide] was more effective than [meloxicam] in the control of swelling and tr...