false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167917217m/28025.jpg 28025 12 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 <i>The Myth of the Eternal Return</i> makes both intelligible 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. 28617 1 11 1954 The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History total:171|5:72|4:55|3:34|2:8|1:2| 171 700 276 10 3 4 false false Sun Oct 05 08:20:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 21:55:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 20 04:52:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 04:53:10 -0700 2009

It is always a joy to read a great man's greatest book- and the author himself considered this to be the most significant of all his works. He would expand the central concepts elsewhere, but it is here that they first seem to burst forth. Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 08 07:58:12 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 07:58:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 05:48:37 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 05:51:36 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 15 15:33:12 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 15:37:53 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967 Sat Dec 27 14:32:14 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 11:33:24 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:32:29 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:32:29 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:49:11 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:50:26 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Sep 21 16:29:12 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 10:47:04 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 16:29:12 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jul 13 14:57:39 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 15:01:36 -0700 2008 Illuminating and insightful exploration of human myth-making, non-linear perception, primordial history, and archaic mentality.]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 02 07:07:18 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 07:07:18 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Dec 02 07:06:15 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 07:06:15 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 23:32:52 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 23:32:55 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 23 09:31:30 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 09:31:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 05:27:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 05:32:35 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 22 18:31:40 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 18:31:40 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 13:37:32 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 13:37:32 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 09:28:32 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:28:32 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 18:12:53 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 18:12:53 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 10:00:03 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:35:39 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 04:35:41 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28025