Davíd Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, founded at the University of Colorado. Jane Marie Law is an associate professor of Japanese Religions at Cornell University.

Waiting for the Dawn is an authentic portrait of how Eliade wanted to be known and seen in America: as a teacher close to colleagues and students, listening and discussing—engaged—Waiting for the Dawn."—Charles H. Long

• ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Kitagawa; Joseph Mitsuo; Prologue:; Promise and the Labyrinth; Carrasco; David; Introduction: Other Eliades; Carrasco; David; Law; Jane Marie; Part One; The Grand Oscillation: Selections from the Oeuvre of Mircea Eliade; Waiting for the Dawn; Literary Imagination and Religious Structure; Sambo; From Silkworms to Alchemy; A New Humanism; Sky, Moon, and Egg; Vocation and Destiny: Savant, Not Saint; Literature and Fantasy; A Terrific Illusionist: The Best!; The Terror of History; The Criterion Group: From Freud to Charlie Chaplin; Part Two; Encounter and Reflection: Essays by Seminar Participants; Sacred Space, Historicity, and Mircea Eliade; Pois; Robert A.; Forbidden Forest: Eliade as Artist and Shaman; Nolan; Edward P.; Mircea Eliade: The Self and the Journey; Taylor; Rodney L.; Part Three; Souvenirs; Mircea Eliade and the "Duration of Life": An Abundance of Souvenirs; Carrasco; David; Renewed Reflections; Law; Jane Marie; Introduction to "In the Shadow of a Lily"; Ricketts; Mac Linscott; In the Shadow of a Lily; Eliade; Mircea; About the Contributors; About the Book and Editors;