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The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of h...

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Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations with Claude-Henri Rocquet

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equ...

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If Samkhya-Yoga philosophy does not explain the reason and origin of the strange partnership between...

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Yoga: Immortality and Freedom

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, a...

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And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this ...

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Youth Without Youth

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely beca...

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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-ma...

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A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousnes...

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Mircea Eliade

Historian

Born: 1907-03-13

Died: 1986-04-22

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.More