Eliade, Traité d'histoire des religions.
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Mircea Eliade is considered one of the founders of the modern history of religions. A scholar of myths, Eliade developed a comparative vision of religions, finding relationships of proximity between different cultures and historical moments. At the centre of man's religious experience, Eliade placed the notion of the 'Sacred'. His training as a historian and philosopher led him to study myths, dreams, visions, mysticism and ecstasy. In India, Eliade studied yoga and read, directly in Sanskrit, classical Hindu texts that had not been translated into Western languages. A prolific writer, he sought to find a synthesis in the themes he addressed (except in his History of Religions, which remained purely analytical). The concept of "Hierophany", by which Eliade defines the manifestation of the transcendent in an object or in a phenomenon of our usual cosmos, is often highlighted in his documents. Towards the end of the twentieth century, some of Eliade's texts nourished the gnoseological vision of religious movements, which emerged with the counterculture of the 1960s.
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1990 |
| Year | 1990 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Eliade Mircea |
| Editor | Payot |
| First edition | No |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Softcover |
| Size | 21 x 14 cm |
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