The Quest

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"Mircea Eliade.is a pioneering historian of reiigio convinced that Western man's tired cultural blood can be revived by confronting worlds of meaning outside the Judeo-Christian heritage. In his theory, the historian of religion has the task of arranging such contact, which reaches for a 'new humanism/ since cultural meaning historically has religious source and justification."—New York Times Book Review
Here Professor Eliade examines the study of comparative religions and certain themes common to different religious experiences and beliefs. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope of developing an awareness of the place of the history of religion in secularized society. As he has written in the preface, " 'religion'. refers to the experience of the sacred and consequently is related to the ideas of being, meaning, and truth . The awareness of a real and meaningful world is intimately related to the discovery of the sacred."
" a set of essays that seem to set... Tovább

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"Mircea Eliade.is a pioneering historian of reiigio convinced that Western man's tired cultural blood can be revived by confronting worlds of meaning outside the Judeo-Christian heritage. In his theory, the historian of religion has the task of arranging such contact, which reaches for a 'new humanism/ since cultural meaning historically has religious source and justification."—New York Times Book Review
Here Professor Eliade examines the study of comparative religions and certain themes common to different religious experiences and beliefs. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope of developing an awareness of the place of the history of religion in secularized society. As he has written in the preface, " 'religion'. refers to the experience of the sacred and consequently is related to the ideas of being, meaning, and truth . The awareness of a real and meaningful world is intimately related to the discovery of the sacred."
" a set of essays that seem to set forth in small compass, by statement and example, the essentials of Professor Mircea Eliade's methodology in history of religions."—Winston L. King, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
" . an appeal for an inner transformation through the discipline and creative effort of comparative religious studies."—F. J. Streng, Religion in Life
MIRCEA ELIADE is the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His publications include scholarly studies, novels, short storied autobiography, and translations of his major works into many languages.
Paper ISBN: 0-226-20397-2
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