History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3, 2nd Edition
From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
$45.60
- Paperback
367 pages
- Release Date
14 March 1988
Summary
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade’s vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individua…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226204055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226204057 |
| Author: | Mircea Eliade, Alf Hiltebeitel, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 367 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 14 March 1988 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 15mm x 2mm |
| Series: | History of Religious Ideas |
About The Author
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world’s foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade was the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, including A History of Religious Ideas and ten novels.
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