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1. The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(1987-10-23)
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Good.
best book on religion I have ever read.I have been looking for a copy of it for years.
Don't bother unless you're a philosophy PhD
Lost Worlds of the Sacred
Sacred and the Profane |
2. History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 580
Pages
(1985-01-15)
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Superb
Great work by this important author
History of Ideas, Volume I by Mircea Eliade
Sourcebook on religion.
The human and the spiritual One of his main points is that peoples around the world, for whatever reason, seemed to be instinctually drawn toward the worship of something - an object, animal, human or unseen god or goddess. In this first volume he explores various cultures and their beliefs - the Mayas, Greeks, Iranians, neolithic man, Egypt, other Middle East groups...a dazzling array of cultures and societies.As the imagination grew, so did belief in an unseen world. Of particular interest is the section on ancient Israeli beliefs and the origins of Yahweh.The chapters on religion in Greece were notable for their abundant detail.Even in the most isolated areas, the same rites and beliefs emerged - the idea of sacrifice, the belief in another life, the battle of good vs evil, the idea of holy representatives and eventually the thought of eternal life. ... Read more |
3. Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 204
Pages
(2009-07-22)
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Important classic, worth reading
Ian Myles Slater on: Transitions and Rituals
A classic on the subject of initiation Although it is a academic qualitywork it is very readable. The layman should have no problem understandingit. My only complaint about this book is that I wish it were longer. ... Read more |
4. The Forbidden Forest by Mircea Eliade | |
Hardcover: 596
Pages
(1978-05)
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Magical Romania Despite this background, the magic of the woods outside Bucharest, the traditions surrounding Midsummer Eve, and the hedonistic lifestyle of the main character provide a heady mix. This is an enchanting and intoxicating novel, a mixture of the ancient and modern, the timeless and the mundane. ... Read more |
5. The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History (Bollingen Series, XLVI) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 195
Pages
(1974)
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To Transcend Profane Time
way too many pages
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Human Destiny as the Product of Consciousness
Ability to Recreate verses Historical Existentialism Eliade relates two main types of persons. The archaic man and the modern. The archaic models his life on archetypes, similiar to Plato's "world of ideas," forsaking history in favor of such. He repeatedly and continually destroys all history and recreates himself in a new beginning. He does this by entering a timeless realm Eliade calls the illo tempore, a timeless and numinous death and rebirth, which he bases on cyclic events of some type. The modern man negates all of this in favor of historicity. He measures all history and time, or the profane time, and bases his entire life on the meaning of such in present existence and all future decision making. However, without the archaic man's non-historical regenerative abilities to recreate himself in such timelessness, or in the sacred, in imitation of archetypes, the modern historical man faces extreme existential despair. But what saves the modern man from suicide and utter meaninglessness in relativism and nihilism; he joins to his historical self, either religious faith, cyclic theories, mysticism, science and philosophy. Hegel suggests history (and all the evil in history) is never repeated and necessary for the evolution to higher ends. Only persons like Belinsky or Dostoeyski have resisted but weakly in that. Marx had made a science of history as the results of the class struggle, which ultimately fails and leaves us in our existential relativity. So remedies are created to coincide with historical measurement, as in Nietzsche's Eternal Return,although cyclic in nature is not the Eternal Return of the Archaic man who regenerations a new beginning, but rather that of the Greek Heraclitus and Pythagorean thoughts, are the cyclic meanings needed to live a life of measured time and history apart from the archaic regenerative man of archetype models and rebirth into new beginnings. The same holds true for Oswald Spenglers biological conception of history and Heidegger's idea of historicity transcending all are what modern man must attach to his linear historical measurement. While monotheism, the first to measure history and time encounters the timelessness of the illo tempore in the beginning of creation and in the "end" of the world or in Christianity in the second coming of the messiah. Unlike the archaic man who enters the new creation each and every time he recreates both himself and his world. Eliade suggests that perhaps mankind will one day return to the archaic man of regeneration in repetition of rituals and meaning to cease measuring this time and enter in the timelessness, letting go of history and entering in the illo tempore. (Archetype Non-Historical Regeneration Man) And to sum it up, Archaic man had no history, repeated archetype models, destroying his past (all history) and recreating the beginning of time each year in a mystical, timeless moment in the illo tempore, all history erased. While modern man relies on history and profane time and gains either science, philosophy or religious faith to prevent him from dying in existential despair. Now I'm reading this great book entitled, When Science Meets Religion, by Ian G. Barbour and reading of those with religious faith who conform the uncertainties of quantum physics with a God who controls such acausual events. Seeing this through Eliade's lens, I see this as an historical man's attempt to join religious faith to his history and science in order to prevent him from existential despair in the terror of history. For the archaic man none of this is needed, as he will erase all history, re-creating the beginning of time reborn in the timeless moment of illo tempore, not of some future time but of the present. And while the modern man has history and faith, he also forms minority governments to control, organized and maintains his linear history. The majority are followers, freedom is seriously limited. The archaic man has complete freedom as each time cycle or year, to erase all history, to enter in the timeless moment of the archetype of illo tempore and re-create himself and his world. I can't say enough for this book, this only a summary of a higher mountain to see humanity. ... Read more |
6. Bengal Nights: A Novel by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(1995-04-01)
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Very moving
A minor actor in the drama
A MUST READ!
Mad, out of control, beautiful Is this the confession of a repentant Adam, come to weep at the gates of Eden where he so briefly knew bliss? Is it the war story of a proud and Faustian soul who learns European reason after tasting the blood of innocents? Is it the testimony of an emasculated Abelard, who can remember but can no longer experience the passion of his wretched Eloise? All of these, all of these and much that cannot be justly set forth besides. The style is awkward, at times clumsy, but the life of this book is so vivid, so true, so radiant and bewildering, it reminds me of what many religious teachers have said: that if a man tried to look at God directly, though he would be filled with inexpressible joy, he would also certainly die. In that sense this book is a near-death experience. It gets off to a shaky start, a bit like a model-T Ford being wound up on a dusty road, but soon you are captured into a whirlwind of passion and ideas, a kind of psychedelia, with levels and reversals of meaning radiating off into space in every direction: as the other reviewers have said -- colonialism, Hinduism and Christianity (and what is Christianity but prophetic Judaism captured and set to music by exiled Indian temple priests), romance, pride, purity, childhood, selfishness, devotion, promise, punishment, renunciation... Like all Romanian poets, Eliade's motto should be "Lord, grant me only this vision!" His vision burns with the intensity of an acetylene arc. May the reader shield his eyes and turn it to good use.
The XXth century's love story novel |
7. The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Bollingen Series; Mythos Series) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2005-04-18)
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Eliade's Big Bang
Eliade is deeply original in his analysis.
The Apocatastatic Dynamic
Fleeing The "Terror of History"
Important work in its field |
8. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom (Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 568
Pages
(2009-07-06)
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9. Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade by Christian Wedemeyer, Wendy Doniger | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2010-03-08)
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10. Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 484
Pages
(1996-09-28)
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a book that might still be read in a thousand years if people still read books
must-have book
great book
Brilliant, if rather dated The translation is dubious, to the say the least, but even so Eliade comes through.He always does.In Patterns, he walks through a kaleidoscope of images and concepts, demonstrating at once his brilliance and his disturbingly broad reading.He never uses one example where ten will serve, and this becomes part of the whole argumentative structure of the book. The point, you see, is that these "patterns" he pulls out-out of history, out of context, whatever-appear again and again.The opening chapter, on "Sky Gods," for example, is a little manifesto, a demonstration of everything Eliade is all about.If you really master this chapter, come to understand every bit of how it works, you will truly understand Eliade. For those who have been introduced to Eliade through The Sacred and the Profane, for example, and are looking for an accessible book, Patterns does have the difficulty of moving rather rapidly through its arguments.Some discussions simply move too fast for the general reader; Eliade is trying to talk primarily to scholars, and as such he assumes that his readers have some familiarity with his examples.But unless you plan to challenge his thought deeply, you simply do not need to read all of the background material. One failing of Patterns is simply its publication date: this book is from the fifties.And a lot has changed since then, particularly our knowledge of lots of other religions.So sometimes his examples seem simplistic, or downright dubious-and they are!But you just can't begin to make sense of Eliade without Patterns. If you liked Joseph Campbell, it's time to step up to the plate.Read Patterns, maybe reading Cosmos and History and The Sacred and the Profane first, and you'll see the real thing at work.It's true, he doesn't really address his audience magnetically as Campbell sometimes does, but then his project is primarily to suggest to that reading and studying other people's religions is the only way for moderns.You see, desacralization has made modern humanity incapable of seeing the truly powerful worldview of homo religiosus (religious humanity).But unlike Campbell, Eliade doesn't think that we can solve this by getting in touch with our bliss and our myths; he thinks that only reading books can approximate this world. Admittedly, from a scholarly perspective Eliade is a crypto-theologian with a huge axe to grind.Sure, some of his examples are extremely problematic-a point that Jonathan Z. Smith has made on more than one occasion.But like Smith, I'd argue that we need to go through, not around: without Eliade, we can never really make sense of how we look at religion now, how everyone looks at it. The point about Patterns is that it's really a great book.It's wrong-about just about everything, when you get down to it!-but it's one that needs to be read.These days, lots of folks in and out of the Ivory Tower seem to want to get in touch with spirituality.But Eliade was talking about this fifty years ago, and his points still have considerable weight.Why reinvent the wheel?Go to the source, read Eliade at his best, and feel a revolution overtaking you.
Eliade's best book, and the best introduction to his work. Essentially, this is a book about religious symbolism, covering an incredibly wide range of religious traditions. I think if you read this, agree or disagree, you will never look at religions the same way again. Further, this is Eliade's most accessible and complete book. I graduated with a religious studies degree from Yale University, and read this book in the first year after I graduated. I learned nearly as much from this book alone as I did from my undergraduate education. That is a strong statement, but I mean it. ... Read more |
11. The Eliade Guide to World Religions by Mircea Eliade, Ioan P. Culianu, Hillary S. Wiesner | |
Hardcover: 320
Pages
(1991-12)
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Reliable, in-depth resource on world religions |
12. Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 645
Pages
(1991-12-20)
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Great read
A quality anthology of non-Western religious texts |
13. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 648
Pages
(2004-01-19)
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Eliade's Classic Text
Essential for anyone interested in art history, culture, anthropology, psychology and more.
Solid Work on Religious Basis of Shamanism
Very detailed.
Shamanism:Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy |
14. Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religions by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 158
Pages
(1978-03-15)
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Enligtening |
15. The Two and the One (A Phoenix book) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 223
Pages
(1979-09)
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16. Shamanism - Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback:
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(1974)
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absolutely fascinating and still relevant |
17. Journal II, 1957-1969 (v. 2) by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 362
Pages
(1989-10-17)
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18. Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1991-06-05)
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Towards a new humanism |
19. Two Strange Tales by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(2001-05-01)
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But no event in our world is real, my friend.
Two Great Tales
For seekers of real mystery, truth,...and thrill.
A Powerful, Mystical Experience The other tale,whose title now escapes me, addresses a similar subject -- the notion thatthings are not what they seem, that there is another reality beyond thepale of what we usually consider "normal." It describes theexperience of a young man, a student of the occult, if I remembercorrectly, who gains access to a vast library of occult books, formerlyowned by a doctor who had spent time traveling and studying in China beforehe mysteriously disappeared. In the course of his research the young manstumbles across the doctor's journal; after reading a chilling account ofthe doctor's experiments with Oriental occultism and of his seeminglyimpossible fate, the young man learns more about the power of magic than hewished to know. In this age of excessive materialism and forcedpragmatism, these TWO STRANGE TALES are heartily recommended. ... Read more |
20. Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West by Mircea Eliade | |
Paperback: 347
Pages
(1990-01-16)
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Some information about Mircea's first love in India
About both volumes of the autobiography This autobiographycovers the most interesting part of his life, but does not make it to theend, which has the effect, that no one knows, what happend, when the woman,he loved in India visited him later in life in Chicago. That's quite astory, because of who the woman was and because of the shaking novel aboutthe affair. The biography covers his Romanian time and the time in India.He writes very openly not hiding unpleasant things. He tried both, tounderstand indian religions and to live it. The science he did, but tryingto live it with Dasgupta and within the Shivananda ashram, both ended instories with women. With Dasgupta he was to study, but also he wanted tolive like a hindu and in the ashram he wanted to practice yoga. Later hebecame a professor of history of religion at the university of Chicago.It's now some time, since I read this biography and my comments are notpropperly weighted, but I can still say, that Eliade was a fascinatingperson and did good writing and he knew nearly everything. (Just to say:English is a foreign language to me, so please forgive mistakes) ... Read more |
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