Get Free Shipping on orders over $0
Mircea Eliade : A Critical Reader - Bryan S. Rennie

Mircea Eliade

A Critical Reader

By: Bryan S. Rennie

Paperback | 1 April 2005 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $86.99

$79.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.94 with

 or 

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

This anthology is a collection of key essays by and about the Romanian-American Historian of Religions, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). It introduces the beginning student to the terms and categories of Eliade's understanding of religious behaviour as a universal phenomenon: apprehension of the sacred by homo religiosus, humanity's religious mode through hierophanies, revelatory events and objects. The analysis of religious behaviour as the restoration of illud tempus, an alternative continuum of sacred time, through myth, ritual, and symbol is a central feature of that understanding, assumed to have an authentic application in the struggle for freedom from the human condition. As well as Eliade's own understanding and its implication for the study of Religions, the collection alerts the reader to the critical response to the problems of his thought. This includes the issues raised by Eliade's biography, politics, and career as one of the most successful and influential Historians of Religion of the late 20th Century. Moving from inter-war Romania, through India during the struggle for independence, to war-time London and Lisbon, post-war Paris, and finally to America in the 60s and 70s, Eliade's career traces a complex trajectory involving many problems central to the academic study of religion and culture.

More in History of Religion

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 : 4th Edition - Wim Blockmans
The Book of Enoch - Enoch

$49.75

The Templars - Dan Jones

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Book of Enoch - Enoch

RRP $25.25

$23.99

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism - Andrew  Crome
Religious Translation in the Early Modern Global World - Lucinda Martin
Religious Translation in the Early Modern Global World - Lucinda Martin
Baptist Story 2nd Edition, The - Anthony L. Chute
Collected Works of Erasmus : Annotations on Acts - Desiderius Erasmus
The Torah For Dummies : For Dummies - Arthur Kurzweil

RRP $41.95

$29.37

30%
OFF
Francis of Assisi : The Life of a Restless Saint - Volker Leppin

RRP $26.95

$22.99

15%
OFF
A History of God - Karen Armstrong

RRP $27.99

$20.99

25%
OFF
A History of Christianity : The First Three Thousand Years - Diarmaid MacCulloch