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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences - A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder
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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences - A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder
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The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the
mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan
Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career.
Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a
widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of age. He was
teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was
seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow
Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of
religious studies, who had died a few years earlier. But then
Culianu began to receive threatening messages. As his fears grew,
he asked a colleague to hold onto some papers for safekeeping. A
week later, Culianu was in a Divinity School men's room when
someone fired a bullet into the back of his head, killing him
instantly. The case was never solved, though the prevailing theory
is that Culianu was targeted by the Romanian secret police as a
result of critical articles he wrote after the fall of dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu. What was in those mysterious papers? And what
connection might they have to Culianu's death? The papers
eventually passed into the hands of Bruce Lincoln, and their story
is at the heart of this book. The documents were English
translations of articles that Eliade had written in the 1930s, some
of which voiced Eliade's support for the Iron Guard, Romania's
virulently anti-Semitic mystical fascist movement. Culianu had
sought to publish some of these articles but encountered fierce
resistance from Eliade's widow. In this book, author Bruce Lincoln
explores what the articles reveal about Eliade's past, his
subsequent efforts to conceal that past, his complex relations with
Culianu, and the possible motives for Culianu's shocking murder.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Bruce Lincoln
(Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, Middle Eastern Studies and Medieval Studies)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-768910-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-19-768910-8 |
Barcode: |
9780197689103 |
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