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Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Christopher (TRN) Mircea; Moncrieff Eliade
Category: Classics
The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 17, he decides ...Show more
Images and Symbols - Studies in Religious Symbolism by Mircea Eliade; Philip Mairet (Translator)
Category: Religion | Series: Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser.
Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and ...Show more
Sacred & Profane by Mircea Eliade
Category: Spirituality
A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia ...Show more
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bollingen Series (General)
First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian emigre--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half mil ...Show more
Youth without Youth by Mircea Eliade
Category: Fiction | Series: Chicago Lectures in Mathematics Ser.
This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, po ...Show more
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