In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religio...
Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman à clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitio...
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...
This is one of my favorite books. Renowned anthropologist and historian of religion Mircea Eliade attempts to describe how religious people experience the sacred. He also gives a fascinating explanation of primitive religions. The popular image of the...
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...
Con la claridad conceptual, el orden metodológico y el rigor crítico que caracterizan toda la obra de Mircea Eliade, este libro es una compleja aproximación al descubrimiento del yoga hindú como forma de interpretación...
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas . Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion...
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."âMartin...
El estudio del complejo fenómeno chamánico es inagotable. En la actualidad existe una imponente bibliografía sobre el tema, pero casi toda ella lo analiza desde el punto de vista psicológico, sociológico o etnológ...