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A study of archaic man's conception of his place in the cosmos, denial of history, and desire through myths to return to his society's beginnings
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9780691097985 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1954, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: A study of archaic man's conception of his place in the cosmos, denial of history, and desire through myths to return to his society's beginnings

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9780061313202 | Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1961, cover price $6.95

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Product Description: An informative guide to the modern mythologies! This classic study, translated from the original French, deals primarily with societies around the world in which myth is--or was until very recently-- "living," in the sense that it supplies models for human behavior and, by that very fact, gives meaning and value to life...read more
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9781577660095 | Reprint edition (Waveland Pr Inc, June 1, 1998), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: An informative guide to the modern mythologies!
9780061313691 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1968, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: An informative guide to the modern mythologies!
9780060904661 | Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1963, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Examines the nature and significance of myths and their impact on ancient civilizations

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Product Description: A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade   In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred...read more
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9780844660806 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1983, cover price $19.75 | About this edition: A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade   In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred.

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9780156792011, titled "The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion" | Mariner Books, June 1, 1968, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A highly original and scholarly work on spirituality by noted historian Mircea Eliade   In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane, or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred.

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A full exposition of the theory and practices of Yoga, the history of its forms and its role in the evolution of Indian spirituality
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9780140191585 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $10.95
9780691017648 | 2 edition (Bollingen Foundation, April 1, 1970), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A full exposition of the theory and practices of Yoga, the history of its forms and its role in the evolution of Indian spirituality

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Product Description: First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian migr--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond...read more
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9780691119427 | Bollingen Foundation, January 19, 2004, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon.
9780691017792 | Bollingen Foundation, April 1, 1972, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the beliefs, rituals, and symbols of shamanism and explores its practice in various cultures and influence on religious tradition

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9780226203959 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1973, cover price $8.95

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9780844620275 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, April 1, 1975, cover price $16.75

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9780805204919 | Schocken Books, June 1, 1975, cover price $7.95

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Selections from Eliade's writings provide insight into the nature and functions of myth, ritual, medicine men and shamans, and religious mysteries and symbolism. Bibliogs
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9780061319556 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1976, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Selections from Eliade's writings provide insight into the nature and functions of myth, ritual, medicine men and shamans, and religious mysteries and symbolism.

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A compilation of religious texts includes representative documents from every major religion with the omission of Judaism and Christianity
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9780060621346 | Harpercollins College Div, February 1, 1978, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A compilation of religious texts includes representative documents from every major religion with the omission of Judaism and Christianity

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Presents discussions concerning the ways in which modern and historical religious and occult movement correspond to recurrent human social and emotional needs
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9780226203928 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1978, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents discussions concerning the ways in which modern and historical religious and occult movement correspond to recurrent human social and emotional needs

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Product Description: Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, adventures rooted in the people's awareness of an awesome new power...read more
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9780226203904 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 1979), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior.

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Illuminates the creative moments of the major traditions from prehistoric times through classical Greece arguing that religious values and meaning grew with social and technological innovation (view table of contents)
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9780226204000 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Illuminates the creative moments of the major traditions from prehistoric times through classical Greece arguing that religious values and meaning grew with social and technological innovation

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9780226204017, titled "A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries" | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1981, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Illuminates the creative moments of the major traditions from prehistoric times through classical Greece arguing that religious values and meaning grew with social and technological innovation

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9780844666259 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, December 1, 1992, cover price $26.25

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9780061319433 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1979, cover price $13.00

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9780226203898 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $10.00

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The conflict between myth and technology and the impact of totalitarianism is explored in the tale of an elderly schoolteacher who, while looking for a former pupil, is held for questioning by Communist officials in Romania
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9780268014971 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 1980, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The conflict between myth and technology and the impact of totalitarianism is explored in the tale of an elderly schoolteacher who, while looking for a former pupil, is held for questioning by Communist officials in Romania

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9780226204109 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $7.95

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Product Description: Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780882143583 | Reprint edition (Spring Pubns, September 1, 1994), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage.
9780061312366 | Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1980, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage.

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9780664243913 | Westminster John Knox Pr, October 1, 1981, cover price $9.99

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The outstanding, innovative student of religion recounts his exile from Romania, his passion for books and ideas, his discovery of and work in America, his encounters with the century's great minds, and the progress of his own thought
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9780060621438 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1982), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The outstanding, innovative student of religion recounts his exile from Romania, his passion for books and ideas, his discovery of and work in America, his encounters with the century's great minds, and the progress of his own thought

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In a series of interviews, the distinguished scholar, Mircea Eliade, discusses his life, his literary career, and the development of his theories of the history of religion
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9780226203874 | Univ of Chicago Pr, August 1, 1982, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In a series of interviews, the distinguished scholar, Mircea Eliade, discusses his life, his literary career, and the development of his theories of the history of religion

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Product Description: In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena—the element of the sacred...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780844662268 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious.

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9780722079454 | Sheed & Ward Ltd, June 1, 1999, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious.
9780803267336 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious.
9780452009059 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, February 1, 1983), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious.

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Product Description: Los abios y ascetas indios, mucho antes de la psicología profunda, se vieron llevados a explorar las zonas más oscuras del inconsciente: verificaron que los condicionamientos fisiológicos, sociales, culturales o religiosos eran relativamente fáciles de delimitar y, por consiguiente, de dominar...read more
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9788475092737, titled "Patanjali y el yoga / Patanjali and Yoga" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 1, 1984, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Los abios y ascetas indios, mucho antes de la psicología profunda, se vieron llevados a explorar las zonas más oscuras del inconsciente: verificaron que los condicionamientos fisiológicos, sociales, culturales o religiosos eran relativamente fáciles de delimitar y, por consiguiente, de dominar.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780226203867 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 1984), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society.

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