The sacred and the profane; the nature of religion

By:

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986

Material type: Text

TextNew York Harcourt, Brace & World c1959Description: 256p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0-15-679201-X

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Contents:

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

Abstract: '...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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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

'...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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