TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eliade,Mircea
TI  - Occultism, witchcraft, and cultural fashions: : essays in comparative religions
SN  - 0226203913
AV  - BL80.2 .E43 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Chicago, IL
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Religions
KW  - FAST
KW  - Occultism
KW  - Witchcraft
N1  - 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
N2  - '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.'
ER  -