The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars.
This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade's lifework of detailing and comparing humanity's entire religious heritage, providing fascinating insights into the character and worldview of the 33 principal religions. Including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania, The HarperCollins Concise Guide to...
The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars.
A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade
In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred--as it has manifested in space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself--and buttresses his expansive view of the human experience.
A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade
In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone...
In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes...
In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six lucid essays collected for this volume, Eliade reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. Since all of the essays except the last...
In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astro...
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..". this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headn...
Crossing the boundaries of time, region, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations--laying a foundation for the religious, social, and political heritage of nations and peoples since the beginning of time. Here is a rich and absorbing survey of the common myths that connect all cultures, Eastern and Western, from antiquity to the present day. With stunning power, the stuff of legend is explored in all its drama and magnificence. There are stories of gods and men--and legendary heroes from Zeus to King Arthur to the "Superman" of modern...
Crossing the boundaries of time, region, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations--laying a found...
In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity s effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted."
In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because...
Major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. This merging of inspiration and vision permits the creation of a classic oeuvre whose creator is deemed to be a 'master of his craft, ' or perhaps better, 'a seminal mind.' Such is the work of the historian of religious, Mirceas Eliade. In his lifelong quest to understand the presence of the Sacred throughout human history, Eliade has been fascinated by two central themes: Creation and Time.
Major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. This merging of inspiration and vision permit...
"No event in our world is "real, " my friend. Everything that occurs in this universe is illusory... And in a world of appearances, in which no thing and no event has any permanence, any reality of its own--whoever is master of certain forces can do anything he wishes..." So speaks a character in "Two Strange Tales, " a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. In "Nights at Serampore," three European scholars, traveling deep into the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the...
"No event in our world is "real, " my friend. Everything that occurs in this universe is illusory... And in a world of appearances, in which no thing ...
Wer unter einem Baum einen Blitzschlag berlebt, wird hundert Jahre alt, erzhlt eine irische Legende. Dominic Matei, siebzigjhriger Altphilologe aus der rumnischen Provinz, wird in der Osternacht 1938 vor dem Bahnhof von Bukarest vom Blitz getroffen, sein verkohlter Krper ins Krankenhaus gebracht. Entgegen allen Erwartungen aber bleibt Matei nicht blo am Leben, sondern wird zusehends jnger Mircea Eliades berhmter Roman Jugend ohne Jugend (Der Hundertjhrige) ist von Regisseur Francis Ford Coppola, der das Nachwort zu dieser Ausgabe geschrieben hat, verfilmt worden. Filmstart ist im Frhsommer...
Wer unter einem Baum einen Blitzschlag berlebt, wird hundert Jahre alt, erzhlt eine irische Legende. Dominic Matei, siebzigjhriger Altphilologe aus de...
