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The Sacred and the Profane
The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 23, 1968
Reading lane: The Christian Soul
A groundbreaking work on myth, symbol, and ritual by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time.
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- Authors
- Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 23, 1968
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- The Christian Soul · Hindu History
- Reading lane
- The Christian Soul
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A groundbreaking work on myth, symbol, and ritual by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time. In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in space, time, nature and the cosmos, and...
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