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The Great Circle-Dance of the Religions

By David Stendl-Rast

The driving force of the spiritual quest is our longing to belong.

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Patterns in Comparative Religion

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.

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Mircea Eliad, Rosemary Sheed (translator), John Clifford Holt (introduction)
1996
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The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred.

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Mircea Eliade
1987
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Comparing Belief Traditions