The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
by Mircea Eliade
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages195 pages
ISBN
9780691017778
Published
1949
Description
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the north American reputation of the romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number ...This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the north American reputation of the romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures & drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's "The myth of the eternal return makes both intelligible & compelling the religious expressions & activities of a wide variety of archaic & "Primitive" Religious cultures.