| Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea (Author), Mairet, Philip (Translator) |
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ISBN: 069102068X ISBN-13: 9780691020686 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $32.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1991 Annotation: 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 function of human consciousness. The author describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of people of the East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 291.37 |
| LCCN: 90020360 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.49" W x 8.51" (0.52 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development. |