Mircea Eliade on Spirituality, Secularity and Religion. Some Thoughts of his Journal

Abstract

If one takes ‘spirituality’ in the main sense: of something belonging to the human spirit, i.e. human culture, one can easily realize that probably any of Eliade’s works are, more or less, about human spirituality. This paper will try to find Eliade’s inner thoughts about the human spirit, spiritual life, religion, and secularity; this can be done better by analyzing the book Eliade expresses his opinion more freely than anywhere else: his ‘Journal’. Additionally, in order to understand Eliade’s viewpoint about deus otiosus - i.e. a god, once central in religion, is no longer important, but forgotten - this article will get unexpected help from Dexter, a character of the TV series with the same name.2