Mircea Eliade, religious imaginings and hermeneutics

Mircea Eliade es uno de los principales hermeneutas de la historia de lasreligiones y el mito. Aquí se explica qué es, para él, la hermenéutica y seexponen algunos de los principios básicos de una obra dedicada al estudiodel homo symbolicus o religiosus.Mircea Eliade is one of the most important hermeneuticians in the history ofreligion and myth. This article explains what the concept of hermeneuticsmeans for him. Some basic principles of his work focused on “homosymbolicus” or “religiousus” are also presented