The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (Translator), Jonathan Z. Smith (Introduction by)Publish date:2018-11-20Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691182971ISBN-10:691182973UPC:9780691182971Book Category:Social Science, Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Space ScienceBook Topic:CosmologySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0EF6PCWF
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr -scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691182971ISBN-10:691182973UPC:9780691182971Book Category:Social Science, Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Space ScienceBook Topic:CosmologySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC0EF6PCWF
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...
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