Name: History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
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Author: Mircea Eliade
ISBN: 9780226204017

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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mircea Eliade

Translated by

Willard R. Trask

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Year

1981

Language

English

Pages

508

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.0 x 15.0 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.64 kg.

ISBN

0226204014

ISBN13

9780226204017

Edition No.

N/A

Synopsis "History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone age to the Eleusinian Mysteries "

No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review

Mircea Eliade

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Mircea Eliade (Bucharest 1907 – Chicago 1986) was a professor at the University of Bucharest, the École des Hautes Études in Paris, the Sorbonne University, and the University of Chicago, where he chaired the Department of History of Religions and taught for thirteen years

During a trip to Italy to finish his doctoral thesis on Renaissance Philosophy, Mircea Eliade came into contact with Hinduism and moved to India for four years to learn the Sanskrit language and Hindu culture and religion. Before settling in France, he spent five years in Lisbon, where he met Ortega y Gasset and came into contact with Spain and intellectuals of the time such as Menéndez Pidal and Eugeni D’Ors, whom he deeply admired

Over time, he became part of the Eranos Circle, a scientific and philosophical analysis organization whose goal was to explore the links between the thought of the East and the West

Mircea Eliade wrote more than 15 essays and three narrative works, and also engaged in journalism in Romania in the 1930s

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