TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eliade,Mircea
TI  - Rites and symbols of initiation: : the mysteries of birth and rebirth
T2  - (Harper Colophon)
SN  - 0-06-131236-3
AV  - 58-10374 
PY  - 1958///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - Initiation--Rites and Ceremonies
KW  - FAST
N1  - Trans. from the French Naissances mystiques by Willard R. Trask. 1st pub. by Harper and Brothers in 1958 as Birth and Rebirth
N2  - 'Professor Eliade takes one particular subject, the almost universal prevalence in human culture of some form of initiatory rite and custom, and treats it in a way that is at once scholarly and interpretative. We find in his book not merely a collection of data but also a profound and insightful attempt to get, so to speak, under the skin of the data, and to discern the underlying meaning and purpose of initiation.'
ER  -