THE IMPORTANCE, CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS ADDRESSED BY MIRCEA ELIADE IN HIS STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

Religion, which is first and foremost a state of belief faith, in other words, phenomenon unique to humanity, the subject research history religions as well many disciplines within scope religious sciences. The discipline not only fulfills an important function today because it comparatively analyzes religion, issues, manifestations sacred different religions, but also evolves line thinking understanding like social Mircea Eliade most philosopher historian who grew up 20th century field History Religions, progressed Rudolf Otto made his main contribution this hermeneutic sense. Throughout life, did use basic concepts he used work purely literal sense, rather gave these more ontological, semantic, meaningful significance approached them from broader perspective. Eliade, frequently uses such sacred, profane, homo religiosus, symbol, initiation, image, myth, hierophany, mana, taboo, archetype studies works, emphasizes reality their importance for both primitive modern societies reveals historical manifestations. In study, importance, classification description deals with works positions are tried be explained Eliade's perspective by processing depth all realities.