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Mircea Eliade on ritual

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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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A Lecture on Mircea Eliade's the Sacred and the Profane: Space

The lecture is part of an online course on Eastern and Western religions offered at Methodist College. During the last part of the course, the students read Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane.

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Mircea Eliade
2014
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade.

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Mircea Eliade, Jonathan Z. Smith (introduction), Willard R. Trask (translator)
2018
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The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior.

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Mircea Eliade
1979
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