Mircea Eliade's novels have become well known to many people. However, Eliade's novels have not been studied so much in the area of religious studies. Eliade wrote many works after emigrating to Chicago. Those works were produced while Eliade had an argument over literature with I.P. Culianu. This bond between Eliade and Culianu has been ignored so far. In this paper, I will try to shed new light on Eliade by taking up Eliade's novels from the perspective of Culianu's studies.

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Franz Rosenzweig war einer der bedeutendsten judischen Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Er hat seine Gedanken "das neue Denken" genannt und das "alte Denken von Parmenides bis Hegel", das nach dem Wesen fragt und alle Dinge auf ein einziges Wesen zuruckfuhrt, kritisiert. Gegen dieses "alte Denken" hat Rosenzweig geschrieben, dass das Merkmal des neuen Denkens "im Bedurfen des andern" und "im Ernstnehmen der Zeit" liege. Rosenzweig hat sein Denken auch "die erfahrende Philosophie" genannt. Heinz-Jurgen Gortz hat diese diskutiert, dabei aber nur Rosenzweigs Abhandlung "Das Neue Denken" (1926) intensiv betrachtet. Man muss jedoch auch sein Hauptwerk Der Stern der Erlosung (1921) und seine Briefe berucksichtigen, um seine "erfahrende Philosophie" als neues Denken erlautern zu konnen. Die vorliegende Abhandlung betrachtet Rosenzweigs Philosophie unter folgenden Schlusselwortern: das Sein, "das Wortchen Und", die Offenbarung Gottes, Wirklichkeit und Wahrheit; und sie schlagt vor, seine "erfahrende Philosophie" als eine die Offenbarung Gottes erfahrende Philosophie zu lesen.

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Ryoyo Shogei (1341-1420) is one of the most respected monks in the Jodo sect. Shogei defined Kami for the Jodo sect by writing Reikiki-Shuisho, a commentary on the Shinto book Reikiki, which had a profound influence on the religious world of medieval Japan. First, using the classification of Buddhist teachings, he fully clarified the meaning of the body of Kami in each different sect of Buddhism in order to claim the superiority of that of the Jodo sect. Furthermore, by introducing the medieval religious concept of "Dai-Gen-Son-Shin" (Great-Foundation-Honorable-Kami), which had a unique character in the law and Buddhist teachings, he expanded the interpretation of Honen's teachings in order to theoretically explain the complete identity of Amida-Buddha and Kami. Finally, I should note that this study shows how progressive and innovative Ryoyo was in the development of theories in all the Jodo schools of those days.

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