Editing Mircea Eliade (section)

===Early exile===
At signs that the [[Communist Romania|Romanian communist regime]] was about to take hold, Eliade opted not to return to the country. On September 16, 1945, he moved to France with his adopted daughter Giza.<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/><ref name="pcommare"/> Once there, he resumed contacts with Dumézil, who helped him recover his position in academia.<ref name="vilasanjpaseo"/> On Dumézil's recommendation, he taught at the ''[[École Pratique des Hautes Études]]'' in Paris.<ref name="Şora, Handoca"/> It was estimated that, at the time, it was not uncommon for him to work 15 hours a day.<ref name="ribas"/> Eliade married a second time, to the Romanian exile Christinel Cotescu.<ref name="vilasanjpaseo"/><ref name="msrsotia">Mihai Sorin Rădulescu, [http://www.zf.ro/articol_87328/cottestii__familia_sotiei_lui_mircea_eliade.html "Cotteştii: familia soţiei lui Mircea Eliade" ("The Cottescus: the Family of Mircea Eliade's Wife")] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803223957/http://www.zf.ro/articol_87328/cottestii__familia_sotiei_lui_mircea_eliade.html |date=2008-08-03 }}, in ''[[Ziarul Financiar]]'', June 30, 2006; retrieved January 22, 2008 {{in lang|ro}}</ref> His second wife, the descendant of [[boyar]]s, was the sister-in-law of the conductor [[Ionel Perlea]].<ref name="msrsotia"/>

Together with [[Emil Cioran]] and other Romanian expatriates, Eliade rallied with the former diplomat [[Alexandru Busuioceanu]], helping him publicize [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] opinion to the Western European public.<ref name="guleaobsc">Dan Gulea, [https://archive.today/20130113115235/http://www.observatorcultural.ro/informatiiarticol.phtml?xid=12070 "O perspectivă sintetică" ("A Syncretic Perspective")], in ''[[Observator Cultural]]'', Nr. 242, October 2004; retrieved October 4, 2007 {{in lang|ro}}</ref> He was also briefly involved in publishing a Romanian-language magazine, titled ''Luceafărul'' ("The Morning Star"),<ref name="guleaobsc"/> and was again in contact with [[Mihai Șora]], who had been granted a scholarship to study in France, and with Șora's wife [[Mariana Şora|Mariana]].<ref name="Şora, Handoca"/> In 1947, he was facing material constraints, and [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] found him a job as a [[French language|French-language]] teacher in the United States, at a school in [[Arizona]]; the arrangement ended upon Coomaraswamy's death in September.<ref name="McGuire, p.150"/>

Beginning in 1948, he wrote for the journal ''Critique'', edited by French philosopher [[Georges Bataille]].<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/> The following year, he went on a visit to Italy, where he wrote the first 300 pages of his novel ''[[Noaptea de Sânziene]]'' (he visited the country a third time in 1952).<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/> He collaborated with [[Carl Jung]] and the ''[[Eranos]]'' circle after [[Henry Corbin]] recommended him in 1949,<ref name="McGuire, p.150"/> and wrote for the ''[[Antaios (magazine)|Antaios]]'' magazine (edited by [[Ernst Jünger]]).<ref name="ribas"/> In 1950, Eliade began attending ''Eranos'' conferences, meeting Jung, [[Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn]], [[Gershom Scholem]] and [[Paul Radin]].<ref>McGuire, pp. 150–151</ref> He described ''Eranos'' as "one of the most creative cultural experiences of the modern Western world."<ref name="McGuire, p.151">McGuire, p. 151</ref>

In October 1956, he moved to the United States, settling in Chicago the following year.<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/><ref name="vilasanjpaseo"/> He had been invited by [[Joachim Wach]] to give a series of lectures at Wach's home institution, the [[University of Chicago]].<ref name="McGuire, p.151"/> Eliade and Wach are generally admitted to be the founders of the "Chicago school" that basically defined the study of religions for the second half of the 20th century.<ref name="Hermeneutics in History">[http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/wach_eliade/about.shtml Conference on ''Hermeneutics in History: Mircea Eliade, Joachim Wach, and the Science of Religions''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211130723/http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/wach_eliade/about.shtml |date=2006-12-11 }}, at the [http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/ University of Chicago Martin Marty Center. Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905212810/http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/ |date=2008-09-05 }}; retrieved July 29, 2007</ref> Upon Wach's death before the lectures were delivered, Eliade was appointed as his successor, becoming, in 1964, the ''[[Sewell Avery]] Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions''.<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/> Beginning in 1954, with the first edition of his volume on ''[[Eternal return (Eliade)|Eternal Return]]'', Eliade also enjoyed commercial success: the book went through several editions under different titles, and sold over 100,000 copies.<ref>McGuire, pp. 151–152</ref>

In 1966, Mircea Eliade became a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/> He also worked as editor-in-chief of [[Macmillan Publishers]]' ''Encyclopedia of Religion'', and, in 1968, lectured in religious history at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Oişteanu, "Mircea Eliade şi mişcarea hippie"</ref> It was also during that period that Mircea Eliade completed his voluminous and influential ''History of Religious Ideas'', which grouped together the overviews of his main original interpretations of religious history.<ref name="vilasanjpaseo"/> He occasionally traveled out of the United States, attending the Congress for the History of Religions in [[Marburg]] (1960), and visiting Sweden and [[Norway]] in 1970.<ref name="Biografie in Handoca"/>