History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms: v. 3 (A History of Religious Ideas) - Softcover

Eliade, Mircea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226204057 ISBN 13: 9780226204055

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0226204057
• ISBN 13: 9780226204055
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 367