Download or read book Cosmogonic Myth and sacred History written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Narrative written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-11-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classic statements on the theory of myth by the authors. The twenty-two essays by leading experts on myth represent comparative, functionalist, myth-ritual, Jungian, Freudian, and structuralist approaches to studying the genre.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Creation Myths written by David Adams Leeming and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed way with this classic text.
Download or read book The Sacred and the Profane written by Mircea Eliade and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1959 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book African Religions written by Jacob K. Olupona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Bollingen. This book was released on 1965 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of archaic man's conception of his place in the cosmos, denial of history, and desire through myths to return to his society's beginnings
Download or read book Cosmos and History written by Mircea Eliade and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.
Download or read book Sacred Cosmogony Or Primitive Revelation Demonstrated written by A. Sorignet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sacred Cosmogony, or Primitive Revelation Demonstrated: By the Harmony of the Facts of the Mosaic History of the Creation, With Principles of General Science Consequently Blainville restores the sciences to philosv ophy, which ought never to have been separated from them and he defines philosophy, with Plato, to be the knowledge of things human and divine. For him, religion and philosophy - When this latter is taken to be what it really is, and the former is Christianity - are one and the same science; philosophy embracing the same obj ects - the world, man, God, in themselves and in their relations; having the same end - the establishment of the principles of the social order: the one acquired by demonstration the other, by faith in divine revelation. This alone addresses, and can alone address, its infallible teaching to all ages and all degrees of intellectual devel opment; while philosophy demonstrates this same doc trine in its grounds, and wherever, by the aid of natural facts, human reason and the discursive faculty can reach; so that the child who has received the simple elements of faith has already reached the point at which the phi losopher arrives after a long and laborious demonstration. On the one hand, there 1s question of Christianity which, under the direction of an infallible rule, has been pre served from individual eclectici'sm; and, on the other, of social philosophy, which should find, as in fact it does find, in: the sincerity of its own principles, an orthodoxy no less rigorous than that of the physical, logical and moral progress of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Asian Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.
Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Bollingen Foundation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Princeton classic edition"--P. 4 of cover.
Download or read book The Quest written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."—Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education
Download or read book Myths and Mythologies written by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. 'Myths and Mythologies' brings together the key classic and contemporary writings - philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological and cognitivist - on myth. To the insider, myths contain truth, revelation and a 'history of ourselves'; to the outsider, a culture s myths can be seen as the product of foolish, infantile and wishful thinking. Myths tell us about specific cultures, about human creativity, and how narrative shapes and reflects understanding. The 'Reader' is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the impact of narrative on human culture and the meaning of truth in religious language.
Download or read book The Night of the Gods written by John O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sacred Cosmogony or Primitive Revelation demonstrated by the harmony of the facts of the Mosaic history of the Creation with the principles of general science Translated from the French written by L. A. SORIGNET and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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