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Harper Torchbooks: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
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The author's purpose is to interpret, and to ease, an encounter which history has made inevitable. But Professor Eliade is too good a scholar, and it too wise in his judgment, to fall into syncretist fallacies. He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennial meaning and destiny of man...
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Harper Torchbooks: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, Mircea Eliade
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- Released
- 1975
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- Title
- Harper Torchbooks: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
- Subtitle
- The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mircea Eliade
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Released
- 1975
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN10
- 0061319430
- ISBN13
- 9780061319433
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Spirituality, Mythology, Mysterious, Mysteries, Dreams, Cultural Anthropology, Facts and Myths
- First published
- 1957
- Original title
- Mythes, rêves et mystères
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- The author's purpose is to interpret, and to ease, an encounter which history has made inevitable. But Professor Eliade is too good a scholar, and it too wise in his judgment, to fall into syncretist fallacies. He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennial meaning and destiny of man...