%0 Journal Article
%T Mircea Eliade ¨C Exile and Diasporic Identity
%A Mihaela Paraschivescu
%J Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies
%D 2006
%I Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies
%X This article is about Mircea Eliade¡¯s rapport to exile, both his and other Romanians¡¯. His approach of the exilic experience allows an incursion into the ¡°diaspora¡± semantic field in the study Theorizing Diaspora by Jana Evans Braziler and Anita Mannur and a look at Eliade as a ¡°diasporic subject¡±. To Eliade, the relationship with homeland and the diasporic identity assume religious significance. He urges members of the Romanian diaspora to hold the native country sacred as a ¡®Jerusalem in the Sky¡¯. A strong believer in the salvaging power of cultural creation over the political factor, he wanted his work to be a response to the communist regime in Romania.
%K Mircea Eliade
%K exile
%K diaspora
%K homeland
%K identity
%U http://www.jsri.ro/new/?download=jsri_no_15_mihaela_paraschivescu.pdf