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February 24 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. These myths and rituals become the communal gateways to connecting with the transcendent reality. Myth and reality by mircea eliage, mircea eliade, paperback. Find antique books, rare edition books, 1st ed books, and more. Forsuch, after all, isthepurport ofthepresent essay. Myth and reality by mircea eliade 1968, paperback for.
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He studied indian philosophy and sanskrit at the univ. In his 1949 book, the myth of the eternal return, mircea eliade explores the origin stories that make up the fabric of reality. Douglas allen critically interprets eliades theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analyses many of the controversial issues in eliade. The reader may recognize the hand of rudolf otto in eliades use of the irreducible experience of the sacred, but it should not be thought that eliade blanketly based his research on ottos studies. Myth and reality religious traditions of the world. Myth and reality has 2 available editions to buy at alibris. Archaic techniques of ecstasy bollingen, and more on. This classic study deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth is still alive, in the sense that it supplies guides for behavior and provides cultural meaning and importance to life. Very scholarly type writing but doesnt really break down the myths and. Eliade notes that, in traditional societies, myth represents the absolute truth about primordial time.
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