The Sacred and Profane

Eliade, Mircea

ISBN 10: 015679201X / ISBN 13: 9780156792011

Verlag: HarperOne, 1987

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A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade

 

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. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself—and buttresses his expansive view of the human experience. 

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Mircea Eliade was chairman of the department of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. Among his many books are The Myth of the Eternal Reunion, Patterns in Comparative Religion, Birth and Rebirth, and Yoga: Immorality and Freedom.

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Titel: The Sacred and Profane
Verlag: HarperOne
Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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