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  • Time, Death, and the Unspeakable Secret
    Mircea Eliade / Mac Linscott Ricketts
    The Romanian writer Mircea Eliade is best known in the English-speaking world as an influential historian of religion, author of such works as The Sacred and the Profane and The Myth of the Eternal Return. However, Eliade’s body of work is much broader, and throughout his life he kept the world of fiction and mysticism very close to his heart. Starting at the age of fourteen, E...
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    20,82 €

  • Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent
    Mircea Eliade
    The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, and stays up all night reading. At the age of 17 he decides to write a novel to prove to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his fellow pupils, and is prepared to give up ev...
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    21,13 €

  • Yoga
    Mircea Eliade / Willard R. Trask
    In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century. A new introduction by Davi...
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    52,97 €

  • Two Strange Tales
    Mircea Eliade
    So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. In 'Nights at Serampore, ' three European scholars, traveling deep in the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the violent murder of a young Hindu wife. In 'The Secret of Dr. Honig...
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    16,43 €

  • Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts
    Mircea Eliade
    Major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. This merging of inspiration and vision permits the creation of a classic oeuvre whose creator is deemed to be a ’master of his craft, ’ or perhaps better, ’a seminal mind.’ Such is the work of the historian of religious, Mirceas Eliade. In his lifelong quest to understand th...
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    39,64 €

  • Images and Symbols
    Mircea Eliade / Philip Mairet
    Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled th...
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    46,29 €