Myths, dreams, and mysteries : the encounter between contemporary faiths and archaic realities

Orig. pub. as Mythes, Reves et Mysteres by Libraire Gallimard, c1957.. The English transl. by Philip Mairet was 1st pub. by Harvill Press, London, and Harper & Row, New York, c1960.

Contemporary faiths. 1 The myths of the modern world. 2 The myth of the noble savage or, the prestige of the beginning. Archaic realities. 3 Nostalgia for paradise in the primitive traditions. 4 Sense-experience and mystical experience among primitives. 5 Symbolisms of ascension and "waking dreams". 6 Power and holiness in the history of religions. 7 Mother earth and the cosmic hierogamies. 8 Mysteries and spiritual regeneration. The encounter: a test-case. 9 Religious symbolism and the modern man's anxiety

'He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennieal meaning and destiny of man....'

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