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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

by Mircea Eliade

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A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade InThe Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times fi... Read more

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

 

InThe 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.  Less

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File size8 X 5.31 X 0.67 in
Print pages256
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date February 1, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780156792011
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Mircea Eliade
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Mircea Eliade (March 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious e...

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