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050 0 0 _a58-10374
100 1 _aEliade, Mircea,
_9906750
_d1907-1986
245 0 _aRites and symbols of initiation
_b: the mysteries of birth and rebirth
250 _a1st Harper Colophon ed., 1975
264 _aNew York
_bHarper & Row
_cc1958
300 _axv, 175p.; bibliog. notes; index
336 _a text
_b txt
_2 rdacontent
337 _a unmediated
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_2 rdamedia
338 _a volume
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_2 rdacarrier
490 0 _a(Harper Colophon)
500 _aTrans. from the French Naissances mystiques by Willard R. Trask. 1st pub. by Harper and Brothers in 1958 as Birth and Rebirth.
520 3 _a'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.'
563 _aPaperback
650 _aInitiation--Rites and Ceremonies
_2FAST
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999 _c53827
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