| History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226204057 ISBN-13: 9780226204055 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1988 Annotation: 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 of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Religion | History - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 291 |
| LCCN: 77016784 |
| Series: History of Religious Ideas |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.02" W x 9.11" (1.14 lbs) 367 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable. As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eliade, Mircea: - Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world's foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade was the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, including A History of Religious Ideas and ten novels. |