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Occultism, witchcraft, and cultural fashions : essays in comparative religions

By: Material type: TextTextChicago, IL University of Chicago Press c1976Description: 148p.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226203913
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL80.2 .E43
Contents:
1 Cultural fashions and history of religions. 2 The world, the city, the house. 3 Mythologies of death: an introduction. 4 The occult and the modern world. 5 Some observations on European witchcraft. 6 Spirit, light, and seed
Abstract: 'In a period dominated by the triiumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft?...Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals...[and] reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. Each of the six essays focuses on a central--and controversial--issue in the history of religions.'
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1 Cultural fashions and history of religions. 2 The world, the city, the house. 3 Mythologies of death: an introduction. 4 The occult and the modern world. 5 Some observations on European witchcraft. 6 Spirit, light, and seed

'In a period dominated by the triiumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft?...Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals...[and] reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. Each of the six essays focuses on a central--and controversial--issue in the history of religions.'

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