In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of...
Mircea Eliade stellt in seinem Buch Kosmos und Geschichte eine der Grundfragen der menschlichen Existenz überhaupt: Wie erträgt der Mensch das Leid und die Katastrophen, denen er hilflos ausgeliefert ist? Wie deutet er das historische Geschehen...
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...
Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential...