History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms - Couverture souple

Eliade, Mircea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226204057 ISBN 13 : 9780226204055

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this volume.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable.

As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226204057
• ISBN 13: 9780226204055
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 367