Acknowledgments Introduction I: Two Scholars, a "School" and a Conference Christian K. Wedemeyer Introduction II: Life and Art, or Politics and Religion, in the Writings of Mircea Eliade Wendy Doniger Part One: Joachim Wach: Contexts, Categories, and Controversy Hans G. Kippenberg-Joachim Wach between the George-Circle and Weber's Typology of Religious Communities Steven M. Wasserstrom-The Master-Interpreter: Notes on the German Career of Joachim Wach (1922-1935) Gregory D. Alles-After the Naming Explosion: Joachim Wach's Unfinished Project Charles S. Preston-Wach, Radhakrishnan, and Relativism Part Two: Mircea Eliade: Literature and Politics Matei Calinescu-Eliade and Ionesco in the Post-World War II Years: Questions of Identity in Exile Daniel Dubuisson-The Poetical and Rhetorical Structure of the Eliadean Text: A Contribution to Critical Theory and Discourses on Religions Antoine Faivre-Modern Western Esoteric Currents in the Work of Mircea Eliade: The Extent and Limits of their Presence Moshe Idel-The Camouflaged Sacred in Mircea Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship Bryan Rennie-The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion Jonathan Z. Smith-The Eternal Deferral Part Three: Mircea Eliade: Politics and Literature Florin Turcanu-South-East Europe and the Idea of the History of Religions in Mircea Eliade Elaine Fisher-Fascist Scholars, Fascist Scholarship: The Quest for Ur-Fascism and the Study of Religion Anne T. Mocko-Tracing the Red Thread: Anticommunist Themes in the Work of Mircea Eliade Carlo Ginzburg-Mircea Eliade's Ambivalent Legacy List of Contributors.