Mircea Eliade (1907–1986)

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1. Mircea Eliade

   Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, Patterns in Comparative Religion

2. Joseph Campbell

   Author of The Power of Myth, Myths to Live By, The Mythic Image

3. Carl Jung

   Author of Man and his Symbols, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Symbols of Transformation

4. Elaine Pagels

   Author of The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, The Gnostic Paul

5. Claude Lévi-Strauss

   Author of The Savage Mind, The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Raw & the Cooked), Totemism

6. Frances Yates

   Author of The Art of Memory, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

7. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Future of an Illusion, Totem and Taboo, Moses and Monotheism

8. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, Dynamics of Faith, The Shaking of the Foundations

9. Heinrich Robert Zimmer

   Author of Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The King and the Corpse

10. Rudolf Otto

    Author of The Idea of the Holy, Mysticism East and West

11. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

    Author of The Phenomenon of Man, The Divine Milieu, The future of man

12. William James

    Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

13. Erich Neumann

    Author of The Great Mother (Mythos Books), The Origins and History of Consciousness (Mythos Books), Amor and Psyche (Mythos Books)

14. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of Language and Myth, The Myth of the State, Kant's Life and Thought

15. Marie-Louise Von Franz

    Author of Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Alchemical Active Imagination: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books)

16. Julius Evola

    Author of The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art, Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way

17. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

18. Émile Durkheim

    Author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life

19. Michael Harner

    Author of The Way of the Shaman

20. Carlo Ginzburg

    Author of The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath, Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance