History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms ( Volume 3)

Eliade, Mircea

ISBN 10: 0226204022 / ISBN 13: 9780226204024

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms ( Volume 3)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226204022
• ISBN 13: 9780226204024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.

From Library Journal

This third volume by the preeminent historian of religions, who died in April 1986, concludes his masterly survey of the field. The arrangement of the volumes is roughly chronological. This volume examines the later developments of Jewish thought, the spread of Christianity, and the rise and diffusion of Islam. Like the other two volumes, it reflects the author's interest in folk beliefs, heresies, and cults of secret wisdom. It concludes with a long and extremely useful bibliographical analysis, "Present Position of Studies." As the crowning achievement to an unparalleled scholarly career this series of books represents a valuable synthesis for specialists and generalists alike. Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Religious Studies Dept., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing
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