(Readers, I didn’t want to end this week on a sour note. Below is an adapted piece from my Substack blog: further thoughts on Mircea Eliade’s great book “The Sacred and the Profane”.) Eliade says that ...

It’s not easy being a teenage intellectual, particularly if you are busy reading Balzac, spend a great time of time agonising about the soul, never do your homework and rarely understand what’s going ...

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In this tantalizing whodunit, Lincoln (Apples and Oranges), professor of the history of religion at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, plays Poirot after being entrusted with a mysterious ...

I’ve spent much of this afternoon going through boxes of documents and artifacts that my mother gave to me as she was cleaning out her house and preparing for her move. I wish I had worn a mask while ...

In a city with a thick portfolio of unsolved cases, the May 21, 1991, murder of the religion professor Ioan Culianu stands out as one of Chicago’s strangest. Leads in the case entwine the victim’s ...

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 71, Fasc. 1, Fenomenologia e Filosofia Prática / Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy (2015), pp. 102-115 (14 pages) A religião é uma enorme projeção de ...

Benjamin Zephaniah on his memoir; male suicide on Coronation Street; a review of Amy Schumer's latest film, I Feel Pretty; and the long-lost novel by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. Show more In a BBC ...