Author:Eliade, Mircea

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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

By: Eliade, Mircea

Price: NZ$32.40

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: (1987)

Seller ID: 12198

ISBN: 015679201X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Small ink mark to page edges. Corner clipped from front endpaper.; Text in English. Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. "[. . .] traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. He shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares to that of the nonreligious and observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves to live in a completely profane world are sill unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred, in camouflaged myths and degenerated rituals." - from blurb on rear wrapp...
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A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries [Volume One only]

By: Eliade, Mircea

Price: NZ$85.05

Publisher: London, Collins: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17127

ISBN: 0002153114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket

Ex-libris bookplate of Hardwicke Knight on front endpaper. Extensive marginalia by Hardwicke Knight on some pages. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover.; UK edition. Volume One only. xvii, [1], 489 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. Text in English, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. "In this first volume of the grand synthesis that will crown a lifetime of outstanding work, Eliade explores ancient manifestations of the sacred, illuminating the creative moments of the major traditions" - from dustjacke...
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Author:Eliade, Mircea

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries [Volume One only]