Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade
Making reference to a number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, this book makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and primitive religious cultures.
A luminous, profound, and extremely stimulating work.. This is an essay which anyone interested in the history of religion and the mentality of ancient man will have to read. 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. Nation
Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other books, Shamanism, Images and Symbols, and Yoga (all Princeton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691017778 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691017778 |
| Title | Myth of the Eternal Return |
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| Series | Bollingen Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1971-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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