The sacred and the profane; the nature of religion
Material type: TextNew York Harcourt, Brace & World c1959Description: 256p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-15-679201-X
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Orig. pub. as Das Heilige und das Profane by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, c1957. Trans. from German into French. Trans. from French by Willard R. Trask
Intro.. 1 Sacred space and making the world sacred. 2 Sacred time and myths. 3 The sacredness of nature and cosmic religion. 4 Human existence and sanctified life. Chronological survey: the 'history of religions' as a branch of knowledge
'...traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. [Eliade] shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares to that of the non-religious and observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves to live in a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred, in camouflaged myths and degenerated rituals.'
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