The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade

The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade

"Harper Torchbooks paperback edition published under the title Cosmos and history, New York, 1959"--Copyright page.

"Luminous, profound and extremely stimulating. . . This is an essay which everyone interested in the history of religion and in the mentality of ancient man will have to read. It is difficult to speak too highly of it."—Review of Religion
"Profound and pregnant research in the psychology of time and the intuitive forms of the mind as revealed by the early cultures’ attitude toward history."—The Nation

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. His many books include Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, and Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (all Princeton). Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) was the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He was the author of Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown and Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion.

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ISBN 13	9780691182971
ISBN 10	0691182973
Title	The Myth of the Eternal Return
Author	Mircea Eliade
Series	Bollingen Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	2018-11-20
Number of pages	232
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