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    <![CDATA[The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Maitreyi]]>
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    <![CDATA[ Maitreyi este o experienta morala si un roman care a sporit seria miturilor umanitatii. Protagonistii sunt misterioasa indianca Maitreyi (personaj real, fica unui mare filozof) si continentalul Allan, alias M. Eliade, care o cunoaste in perioada studiilor din India. Povestea lor este &quot;o monografie a tulburarii&quot; desfasurata dealungul a 15 capitole. Stilul este original, subordonat autenticului, imbinind jurnalul, corespondenta, eseul, reportajul si povestirea la persoana I, a unor amintiri a eroului.<br/><br/>Mitul fecioarei bengaleze se constituie treptat si dramatic, incepind cu primele capitole unde notatiile din jurnal sunt lapidare si reci si sunt complectate cu amintirile eroului. Pe Allan Maitreyi nu-l atrage initial, gasind-o chiar urita &quot;cu ochii ei prea mari si prea negri, cu buzele carnoase, cu sinii puternici de fecioara bengaleza, crescuta prea plin, ca un fruct trecut in copt&quot;. Devine apoi curios pentru ca &quot;nu izbuteam sa inteleg ce taine ascunde faptura aceasta&quot;. O urmareste tot mai atent, mai ales dupa ce va locui in casa inginerului Narenda Sen, protectorul si tatal fetei. Este pentru el tot mai fermecatoare, datorita cunostintelor vaste pe care le are, dar uneori ii este antipatica din cauza ca elita calcutei o considera chiar geniala. El constata cu luciditate &quot;fara indoiala e cea mai talentata si enigmatica fata din cite am cunoscut, dar eu pur si simplu nu pot sa fiu casatorit&quot;.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History]]>
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    <![CDATA[This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's <em>The Myth of the Eternal Return</em> makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and &quot;primitive&quot; religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the &quot;archaic&quot; 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.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series (General))]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>First published in 1951, <em>Shamanism</em> 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 émigré--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. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the Shaman--at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, <em>Shamanism</em> will remain for years to come the reference book of choice for those intrigued by this practice.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Le roman de l'adolescent myope]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard.  Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history—a man who thought his life was over—lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. <br/><br/>At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade’s novella.  Now in its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India.  Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and terror of the supernatural.  In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader’s imagination.<br/><br/>Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, <em>Youth Without Youth</em> illuminates Eliade’s longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery.  It will be adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature film in over ten years.<br/><br/> “A wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, [Eliade’s novellas] suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural to finding meaning in the everyday. Highly recommended.” —<em>Library Journal</em><br/> <br/>“Youth Without Youth reads like a surreal collaboration by Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung. Mircea Eliade left me with the rare sense that I had been entertained by a genius.”—William Allen, author of <em>Starkweather and The Fire in the Birdbath and Other Disturbances</em>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth]]>
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    <![CDATA[Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rituals, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship. Eliade affirms the greater experience in all initiations--the indissoluable ties between humans and the cosmos of gods, spirits, animals, ancestors, and nature.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Bengal Nights: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a <em>roman á clef</em> of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent. <br/><br/>Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair. <br/><br/>A vibrantly poetic love story, <em>Bengal Nights</em> is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. <br/><br/>&quot;<em>Bengal Nights</em> is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter. It is enough to make stones weep.&quot; &#8212; <em>Literary Review</em><br/><br/>Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, <em>Bengal Nights</em> was an immediate critical success. The film, <em>Les Nuits Bengali</em>, appeared in 1987.&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[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-- &quot;living,&quot; in the sense that it supplies models for human behavior and, by that very fact, gives meaning and value to life. The author believes that understanding the structure and function of myths in these traditional societies serves to clarify a stage in the history of human thought: &quot;myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary.&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas: Volume 1 From the stone age to the Eleusinian mysteries]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fantastic Tales]]>
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    <![CDATA[El burdel de las gitanas]]>
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    <![CDATA[«En algunas personas, bajo las apariencias de una ramplona trivialidad, surge a veces la revelación de las estructuras profundas de lo real.» «Las Tres gracias», «El puente» y «El burdel de las gitanas» son tres relatos iniciáticos que, como otras obras narrativas de Mircea Eliade, están estrechamente ligados a sus estudios sobre religión y mitos. Sus personajes, entre la memoria y el sueño, transitan las melancólicas calles de Bucarest o recorren los paisajes rumanos en busca de una respuesta a la existencia y sus misterios.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;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. <br/><br/>The new edition of <em>The Forge and the Crucible</em> contains an updated appendix, in which Eliade lists works on Chinese alchemy published in the past few years. He also discusses the importance of alchemy in Newton's scientific evolution. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Yoga : Immortality and Freedom]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such &quot;conditionings&quot; as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration &quot;on a Single Point,&quot; postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;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&#8212;all are encompassed in this volume. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Patterns in Comparative Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;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&#8212;the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity&#8217;s effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[A History of Religious Ideas: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms (History of Religious Ideas) Vol.3]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume <em>A History of Religious Ideas</em>. 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. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable. <br/><br/>As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Noaptea de Sinziene]]>
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    <![CDATA[Two Strange Tales]]>
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    <![CDATA[So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. In &quot;Nights at Serampore, &quot; three European scholars, traveling deep in the forests of Bengal, are inexplicably cast into another time and space where they witness the violent murder of a young Hindu wife. In &quot;The Secret of Dr. Honigberger, &quot; a respectable Rumanian physician vanishes without a trace after experimenting with yogic techniques in his quest for the legendary invisible world called Shambhala.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World]]>
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    <![CDATA[This comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. It includes colourful descriptions of deities, creation myths, depictions of death and the afterlife, teachings on the relationship between humanity and the sacred, religious rituals and practices, and prayers and hymns.Mircea Eliade, a recognized pioneer in the systematic study of the history of the world's religions, includes excerpts from the Quran, the Book of the Dead, the Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, the Homeric Hymns, and the Popol Vuh, to name just a few. Oral accounts from Native American, African, Maori, Australian Aborigine, and other people are also included.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Myths, Dreams and Mysteries]]>
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    <![CDATA[Les dix-neuf roses]]>
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    <![CDATA[Sarpele]]>
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    <![CDATA[Secretul doctorului Honigberger]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Forbidden Forest: A Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[History of Religions: Essays in Methodology]]>
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    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[History of Religious Ideas]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1049153.History_of_Religious_Ideas</link>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&quot;No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.&quot;&#8212;Martin E. Marty, <em>New York Times Book Review</em>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Ordeal by Labyrinth: Conversations With Claude-Henri Rocquet]]>
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    <![CDATA[Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent scholar Mircea Eliade shows that such popular trends develop from archaic roots and periodically resurface in certain myths, symbols, and rituals. In six lucid essays collected for this volume, Eliade reveals the profound religious significance that lies at the heart of many contemporary cultural vogues. <br/><br/>Since all of the essays except the last were originally delivered as lectures, their introductory character and lively oral style make them particularly accessible to the intelligent nonspecialist. Rather than a popularization,<em> Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions</em> is the fulfillment of Eliade's conviction that the history of religions should be read by the widest possible audience. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Les hooligans]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;More an eloquent chronicle of the mind's life than a recital of daily routine, this volume of Mircea Eliade's journal offers a remarkably candid portrait of a renowned scholar and his work. The entries&#8212;full of marvelous ideas, outlines for works never written, responses to the works of others, and much more&#8212;reveal many rarely glimpsed sides of the private, as well as public, man. What did he really think of the students who came to him for instruction in black magic? What were his private reflections on feminism, student drug use, the sexual revolution, the nature of American scholars and scholarship? Who were his best friends, why did he enjoy their company, and why did he shun the company of others? <br/><br/>Quite apart from the personal, biographical interest the journal holds, it is a document of cultural and intellectual significance. Eliade remarks on such colleagues and friends as Jung, Dumézil, Ricoeur, Bellow, and Ionesco. Moreover, the period covered encompasses Eliade's most active years as a teacher, and the journal beautifully reflects his developing views on religion, history, and the nature of academic culture. Bits and pieces of Eliade's past life are juxtaposed with thoughts about ongoing projects and work yet to be undertaken as well as with anecdotes of his travels and comments on world events. <br/><br/>A genuine treat for Eliade readers and those interested in history of religions,<em> Journal III</em> provides new perspectives on many of Eliade's other works&#8212;the <em>History of Religious Ideas, Ordeal by Labyrinth, </em>the <em>Autobiography</em>. At the same time the journal is a mature scholar's record of the aftermath of the 1960s, a turbulent period that profoundly affected American university life. As such, these writings hold valuable insights into not only the life and work of one man but also the cultural history of an entire era. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Isabel si apele diavolului: [roman]]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Old Man and the Bureaucrats]]>
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    <![CDATA[Memorii. 1907-1960]]>
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    <![CDATA[Un pasionant Bildungsroman, singurul de acest fel in limba noastra.SERBAN CIOCULESCU<br/><br/>Spre deosebire de majoritatea tinerilor, nu credeam ca generatia mea avea destin politic, asa cum avusese generatia razboiului si cum speram ca vor avea generatiile care vor veni dupa noi. Destinul nostru era exclusiv cultural. Aveam sa raspundem la o singura intrebare: suntem sau nu capabili de o cultura majora - sau suntem condamnati sa producem, ca pana in 1916, o cultura de tip provincial, traversata meteoric, la rastimpuri, de genii solitare ca Eminescu, Hasdeu, lorga? MIRCEA ELIADE]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Intoarcerea din rai: Roman]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[The Eliade Guide to World Religions]]>
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    <![CDATA[This guide to the world's religions, past and present, distills Eliade's three-volume <em>History of Religious Ideas</em> and sixteen-volume <em>Encyclopedia of Religion</em> into one up-to-date and accessible volume. ]]>
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    <![CDATA[India. Nopti la Serampore. Secretul doctorului Honigberger.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Gaudeamus]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;<em>Journal I</em> is a story of revewal&#8212;of the new life that began for Mircea Eliade in the fall of 1945 when he became an expatriate. Eliade came to Paris virtually empty-handed, following the death of his first wife and the Soviet takeover of Romania, which made him a <em>persona non grata </em>there. He had left half a lifetime in Romania: his parents, whom he never saw again; his library; unpublished and unfinished manuscripts, including the journal notebooks prior to 1940; an academic career; and<em> Zalmoxis</em>, the journal of religious studies he founded. <br/><br/>During the lean years in Paris Eliade lived and worked in small, cold rooms; prepared meals on a Primus stove; pawned his valuables; and asked friends for loans. Eventually he secured a research stipend from the Bollingen Foundation. His ten years in Paris were among his most productive; the books he wrote during this period brought him worldwide acclaim as a historian of religions. He records his first meetings with Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gershom Scholem, Georges Bataille, André Breton, Raffaele Pettazzoni, and many other scholars and writers. <br/><br/>Eliade also continued to write literary works. Numerous entries describe his five-year struggle with his novel <em>The Forbidden Forest</em>. Spanning the twelve fateful years from 1936 to 1948, it expresses within a fictional framework the central themes of Eliade's work on religions. Writing the novel was a Herculean task in which Eliade summarized and memorialized his old Romanian life. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Aspect du mythe]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Two and the One (A Phoenix book)]]>
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    <![CDATA[The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars. </p><p> This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade's lifework of detailing and comparing humanity's entire religious heritage, providing fascinating insights into the character and worldview of the 33 principal religions. Including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania, The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions covers all kinds of religious figures, histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas (Romanian Literature and Thought in Translation Series)]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">144901</id>
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    <![CDATA[The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;In <em>The Quest</em> 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 &quot;will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning.&quot; <br/><br/>&quot;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.&quot;&#8212;Joseph M. Kitagawa, <em>Religious Education</em> <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Journal IV, 1979-1985]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;<em>Journal IV</em> is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar&#8212;his works are being translated into many languages and books about him arrive regularly in the mail. His encounters with scholars of like repute are recorded in the journal; after a party in Paris, Eliade shares a taxi with Clade Lévi-Strauss and inadvertently makes off with his raincoat. <br/><br/>Running like a fault line through the peak of his success, however, is Eliade's painful awareness of his physical decline&#8212;failing vision, arthritic hands, and continual fatigue. Again and again he repeats how little time he has to finish the projects he is working on&#8212;his autobiography, the third and fourth volumes of his <em>History of Religious Ideas</em>, and the duties associated with his editorship of the Encyclopedia of Religion. He poignantly recounts the sharpest blow: the disorganization and eventual destruction by fire of his personal library. <br/><br/>Within the scope of <em>Journal IV</em> Eliade and his world go to ruin. What does not decline is the vivid and persistent voice of Eliade the writer, an unbreaking voice that&#8212;with death only months away&#8212;plans a reply to critics, plots out an article, and ruminates on characters to people another novella. <br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2143</ratings_count>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>0805204911</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780805204919</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Patanjali and Yoga]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">165273</id>
  <isbn>0195223802</isbn>
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    <![CDATA[Sacred and Profane Beauty: The Holy in Art (American Academy of Religion Texts and Translations Series)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's<br/>relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's thought.<br/>Van der Leeuw's impassioned and brilliant investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful is founded upon the conviction that for too long the religious have failed to seriously contemplate the beautiful, associating it as they do with the kingdom of sensuality and impermanence.<br/>Similarly it has been alien to literati and aesthetes to reflect upon the holy, for they choose to consider this physical world to be permanent, and therefore to be glorified through beauty alone. In truth, as van der Leeuw undertakes to show in Sacred and Profane Beauty, the holy has never been<br/>absent from the arts, and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Whether one considers the Homeric epics, the dancing Sivas and Vedic poems, the sacred wall paintings of ancient Egypt, the primitive mask, or the range of sacred arts developed out of Latin and Byzantine Christianity,<br/>primordial creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. The fact that in our day this original connection is obscured and the artistic impulse is more generally regarded as wholly individualistic and autonomous does not contradict van der Leeuw's<br/>thesis; indeed, the breakdown of the unity of the holy and the arts is central to his thesis.<br/>Van der Leeuw was the rare thinker who combined profundity of insight, grace of style, and a willingness to take daring intellectual chances. In Sacred and Profane, he describes each of the arts in its original unity with the religious and then analyzes its historical disjunction and alienation.<br/>After a penetrating investigation of the structural elements within the arts which illumines a crucial dimension of the religious experience, van der Leeuw points toward the reemergence of an appropriate theological aesthetics on which a reunification of the arts could be founded.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Myths]]>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <id>344286</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alexander Eliot]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/344286.Alexander_Eliot]]></link>
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        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <text_reviews_count>138</text_reviews_count>
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    <id>20105</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.26</average_rating>
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    <text_reviews_count>995</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Dict.des religions -ne]]>
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  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>194147</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Ioan P. Couliano]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/194147.Ioan_P_Couliano]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
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    <author>
    <id>14521</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14521.Mircea_Eliade]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2143</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>138</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[The History of Religions: Essays on the Problem of Understanding (Essays in Divinity, Vol. 1)]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781488.The_History_of_Religions_Essays_on_the_Problem_of_Understanding</link>
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    <![CDATA[]]>
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    <author>
    <id>410619</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Joseph M. Kitagawa]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/410619.Joseph_M_Kitagawa]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>14521</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14521.Mircea_Eliade]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2143</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>138</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>181183</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Charles H. Long]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/181183.Charles_H_Long]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.71</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">1010830</id>
  <isbn>3572013410</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783572013418</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Die großen Mythen der Menschheit.]]>
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    <![CDATA[ &quot;Im Anfang war das Wort, und Gott sprach: 'Es werde Licht'.&quot; So stellt sich uns der christliche Schöpfungsmythos dar. Wir haben eine mehr oder weniger genaue Vorstellung vom künftigen Untergang der Welt, vom jüngsten Gericht, den Himmels- und Höllenwelten.<p> Doch auch andere Kulturen, zu anderen Zeiten und auf anderen Kontinenten haben mannigfach Sagen, Mythen und Götterwelten hervorgebracht und große und kleine Zeugnisse ihrer Vorstellungen hinterlassen.<p> Schon die Urstämme hatten das Bedürfnis in ihren Höhlenmalereien (z.B. in Lasceaux) ihren Geschichten von Jagd, Geburt und Tod, Schamanismus und Götterwelt Ausdruck zu verleihen.<p> Länger als alle heute existierenden Religionen zusammen muß beispielsweise die Anbetung von Erdmuttergottheiten unter den Menschen verbreitet gewesen sein.<p> Sergius Golowin hat nun einen mit 800 Abbildungen randvollen, prachtvollen Bild-Leseband veröffentlicht und den Versuch gestartet, eine umfassende Übersicht über alle Menschheitsmythen, Sagen und Götterwelten zu entwickeln.<p> Quer über alle Kontinente beginnt er in der Wiege der Menschheit bei den afrikanischen Mythen, reist er über das Mittelmeer, die nordischen Welten, den Nahen Osten, Vorderasien, Südasien, Indonesien, Australien und Ozeanien, insbesondere die Osterinseln und beendet seine in Text, Grafik und oppulenten Bildern aufgearbeitete Weltreise auf dem amerikanischen Doppelkontinent.<p> Thematisch eröffnet er seinen Reigen mit den Mythen über die Entstehung des Kosmos, das göttliche Ei beispielsweise oder die hinduistische Vorstellung. Er berichtet über die Ägypter, über Echnatons Reform zum monotheistischen Aton sowie über alle anderen Sonnenkulte in anderen Epochen.<p> Überaus informativ ist sein mehrseitig grafisch bebilderter Stammbaum der griechischen Götterwelt -- endlich einmal eine gelungene Darstellung der verzwickten Beziehungen in der griechischen Mythologie.<p> Die Weltesche Yggdrasil findet ebenso ihren Platz wie der ägyptische Lebensbaum, Götterboten wie Hermes und Kulturbringer wie Prometheus oder Maui, der Sohn der Erdmutter in der Südsee, werden vorgestellt -- in Wort und Bild.<p> Allein welche Vielfalt die menschliche Psyche an Tiergottheiten geschaffen hat, ist verblüffend.<p> Doch auch alle Tragikhelden versammelt das kiloschwere, 300seitige Werk: Sigurd (Siegfried), Orpheus, Ge Sar, Gilgamesch, Iphigenie, Ischtar, Helena oder Odysseus -- mit allen hat sich Golowin beschäftigt, selbst die Monroe und der Pinnball-Wizzard &quot;Tommy&quot; werden erwähnt.<p> Vom kosmischen Rad und der Seelenwanderung, alles was sich Mann und Frau seit ihrem ersten Bewußtsein imaginiert haben und überliefert wurde findet in diesem Buch seinen Niederschlag.<p> Ein hervorragendes Werk, dem vor allem der Wurf gelungen ist sich sowohl an Spezialisten wie Einsteiger zu wenden; ein herrliches Buch für die heiligen Tage am Ende des Jahres. <em>--Manuela Haselberger</em></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <author>
    <id>506940</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Sergius Golowin]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/506940.Sergius_Golowin]]></link>
    <average_rating>2.50</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
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    <author>
    <id>14521</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Mircea Eliade]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14521.Mircea_Eliade]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.94</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2143</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>138</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>20105</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20105.Joseph_Campbell]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.26</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>13733</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>995</text_reviews_count>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">3412732</id>
  <isbn>3867560722</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783867560726</isbn13>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Die großen Mythen der Menschheit]]>
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