RLG101H5 Study Guide - Mircea Eliade, Mysterium Tremendum, Hierophany
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First he used the systematic dimension (morphological method) in his book. In his book he started it by using how the sky, waters, earth, and stones were created. These analyses were based on eliade"s notion of the dialectic of the sacred, in order to show how far those hierophanies constitute autonomous forms. Eliade was also willing to use nonphilosophical and nonethological terms in an elegant literary styleto discuss religious subjects that attracted many secularized youth. He was also the first at finding the historical studies called history of religion. This experience according to otto, includes a double dimension of a response to the holy - which is an element of shaking fear or replusion and an element of powerful attraction or fascination. The experience of holy is basic to all religious experience. pg 140: characteristics of mysticism according to william james. Ineffability - emphasizes the private, or at least incomumicable, quality of the experience.
