Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780226204055
UPC: 9780226204055
ISBN: 9780226204055
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Book Title: History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 : from Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Comparative Religion, History, Philosophy
Publication Year: 1988
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mircea Eliade
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
