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  • A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 3

    From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona ...
    Series Book 3 - A History of Religious Ideas
    The conclusion of the three-volume history "rendered with the talent of one who is not only an academic writer but a novelist of considerable distinction" (David J. Levy, Times Higher Education Supplement).In A History of Religious Ideas. Mircea Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shamanism

    Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

    by Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger ...
    Series series
    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1

    From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series Book 1 - A History of Religious Ideas
    "Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, The New York Times Book ReviewThis extraordinary work delves into the subject of religion in the prehistoric and ancient worlds—humankind's earliest quests for meaning. From Neanderthal burials to the mythology of the Iron Age, to the religions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Israel, ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Yoga

    Immortality and Freedom

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth centuryIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2

    From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    The second volume of the extraordinary history that "should be an essential resource for generations to come" ( Parabola).In volume two of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the ... Read more

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  • The Quest

    History and Meaning in Religion

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Series series Midway Reprint
    In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning.""Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of the Eternal Return

    Cosmos and History

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Willard R. Trask ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Images and Symbols

    Studies in Religious Symbolism

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Philip Mairet ...
    Series series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions

    Essays in Comparative Religion

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six ... Read more

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  • Patterns in Comparative Religion

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Translated by Rosemary Sheed ...
    In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena—the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity’s effort to ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Forge and the Crucible

    The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, adventures rooted in the people's awareness of an awesome new power.The new edition of The Forge and the Crucible contains an updated appendix, in which ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Mircea Eliade: Autobiography

    Exile's Odyssey, 1937–1960

    by Mircea Eliade ...
    "Here finally are Eliade's memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett's crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early development of a Renaissance talent, expressed in everything from daily and periodical journalism, realistic and fantastic fiction, and general nonfiction works to distinguished contributions to the history of ... Read more

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