Eliade Mircea Trask Willard Trans (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by GIANULIS, BRAD COVER ART (illustrator). PAPERBACK; 13 12 11 10pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright PAPERBACK; WHITE & PURPLE cover titles on PINK & ORANGE on Dark Blue wraparound art paper covers . ; 195pg pages; ntelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.

Paper Back. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Second Printing. 610pp.incl.index+advert; SC blk.w/white&gray-photocover; slight rub w/lt.wear on edges; lt.fold,bk.cover; clean,tight pgs. "To the best of our knowledge the present book is the first to cover the entire phenomenon of shamanism and at the same time to siturate it in the general history of religions." Bollingen Series LXXVII (LXVII on ft.cover). isbn 0691017794.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1979). 489pp. VG/VG copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector. Ink stamp on ffep of The Phiroz Mehta Trust.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book and dust jacket in very solid, unmarked condition. Small bookstore label on front endpaper. Light shelf wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine-. No Jacket. 1st US Edition. 529 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Page edges are lightly darkened, with grey publisher's stain on the head edges. Quarterbound in black and brown cloth with gilt titles. Lightly scuffed. 1ST US EDITION. NF-/- -. Book.

THREE VOLUME SET, super octavo light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spines & covers, mixed pagination, VG+ (v slight scuffing to wrapper edges, slight soiling to page edges).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition, first printing. x, 260pp. Owner's name to title page, light penciling through p. 25, clean and sound otherwise; DJ with some light wear to tips, spine just faintly sunned. A collection of essays on the archaic religion of the authors Romanian homeland; long out of print and scarce in trade. 'Few areas have a more enigmatic-or fas-cinating-religious history than that once called Dacia and Romania orientalia, territories that today comprise Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Macedonia. One of the world's most eminent scholars in the history of religions, Mircea Eliade presents in this volume a series of essays illuminating that history. Of interest to both the specialist and the general reader, Zalmoxis is the only work on its subject available in English. Professor Eliade's study covers such topics as the origins of the ethnic name of the Dacians; the cult of Zalmoxis, mysterious god of the ancient Getae; the folk cosmogonic myth in Romanian folklore; the mythico-ritual meanings of legends concerning the founding of the Moldavian state; and the significance of folk beliefs involving magic and ecstasy, the mandragora, and the gathering of medicinal herbs for religious purposes. Professor Eliade has attempted to decipher the meanings of the few available historical documents dealing with the religious history of this area. Further, since the meaning of a belief or a religious behavior pattern does not become manifest except in the light of comparisons, he has considered the documents against the background of the general history of religions. For each of the author's essays some brief text or tradition is used as a clue to reveal a whole hidden world of religious significance. This, in turn, both illuminates the specific text and, through the imaginative and convincing use of cross-cultural parallels, other texts and traditions as well. The majority of essays ultimately touch upon a major methodological question or the illumination of a basic structure in the history of religions.' (From the DJ flap).