The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade believed that the term Căluşari originated with the Romanian word for horse, cal, from the Latin caballus.
Romanian thinkers such as Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran and Eugène Ionesco had to leave the country in order to be able to continue their work.
"Osiris, the murdered god," A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mircea Eliade, page 97, note 35.
The Romanian historian Mircea Eliade noted a similarity between the Sântoaderi and the zine, or fairies, who were also believed to travel through the night in a procession of dancers.
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In 1949, Corbin first attended the annual Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland, where he was to become a major figure along with Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Gershom Scholem, Adolf Portmann and many others.
It differs from the phenomenology of the sacred (which has been studied by Mircea Eliade, Rudolf Otto and Pavel Florensky) insofar as it focuses on historical examples of hierotopic projects, that is, projects establishing a medium of communication between the mundane and the sacred.
Among the more than 300 Fellows of the Society have been Mircea Eliade, Denise Levertov, Sallie McFague, Cleanth Brooks, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, and John Updike.
Following Woodroffe a number of scholars began investigating Tantric teachings, including scholars of comparative religion and Indology such as Agehananda Bharati, Mircea Eliade, Julius Evola, Carl Jung, Giuseppe Tucci and Heinrich Zimmer.
'An Encounter with Eliade,' and 'The Life and Works of Mircea Eliade,' in Encounters with Mircea Eliade, edited by Mihaela Gligor and Mac Linscott Ricketts, Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, (2005) 199-202 and 203-216.
In Portuguese, his latest book is Ocultism and Religion: in Freud, Jung, and Mircea Eliade, co-authored with the Australian author and professor Harry Oldmeadow.