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Mircea Eliade



Mircea Eliade, PhD (1907–1986), was a Romanian scholar and pioneer in the systematic study of the history of the world’s religions. As one of the world’s most influential scholars and foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth, he is particularly known for his theories of religion concerning the sacred and profane.

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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon.

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Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger (foreword), Willard R. Trask (translator)
2004
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Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World

Originally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically.

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Mircea Eliade
1991
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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 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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Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth

Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of...

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Mircea Eliade, Michael Meade (foreword), Willard R. Trask (translator)
2017
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A History of Religious Ideas, Voluem 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

This extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind’s earliest quests for meaning.

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Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (translator)
1981
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A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas.

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Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (translator)
1985
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Myth and Reality

An informative guide to the modern mythologies! This classic study, translated from the original French, deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth is--or was until very recently-- "living," in the sense that it supplies models for human behavior and, by that very fact, gives...

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Mircea Eliade
1998
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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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