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The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226203867     ISBN-13: 9780226203867
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 1984
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Annotation: In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning."
"Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."--Joseph M. Kitagawa, "Religious Education"


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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Theology
Dewey: 200.9
LCCN: 68019059
Series: History and Meaning in Religion
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.54" W x 8.56" L (0.40 lbs) 187 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Catholic
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning.

Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities.--Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education

Contributor Bio(s): Eliade, Mircea: - 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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