| Patterns in Comparative Religion Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea (Author), Sheed, Rosemary (Translator), Holt, John C. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803267339 ISBN-13: 9780803267336 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Philosophy | Religious |
| Dewey: 291 |
| LCCN: 96030394 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.33" W x 8" (1.19 lbs) 510 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. Mircea Eliade's works include the multivolume History of Religious Ideas. John C. Holt is a professor of religion at Bowdoin College and the author of The Religious World of Kirti Sri: Buddhism, Art, and Politics of Late Medieval Sri Lanka. |