Cette série complète explore le paysage diversifié et en évolution de la pensée religieuse humaine. Elle guide les lecteurs dans un voyage, depuis les premières formes de spiritualité jusqu'aux systèmes théologiques complexes d'aujourd'hui. L'œuvre se concentre sur les questions profondes de l'existence, du sens et du sacré qui ont façonné les civilisations. Elle offre des aperçus profonds de la quête humaine universelle pour comprendre le monde et notre place en son sein.
"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."--Martin E. Marty, "New York Times Book Review"
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—all are encompassed in this volume.
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. 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. 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.
Eine gewaltige geistige Unternehmung, fesselnd und allgemeinverständlich aufbereitet" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). "Wer Eliades Werk liest, wird beschenkt und gewinnt nicht nur ein Verständnis der Religionen, sondern auch der Erkenntnis der Welt, in der wir leben" (Die Welt).
Eine gewaltige geistige Unternehmung, fesselnd und allgemeinverständlich aufbereitet" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). "Wer Eliades Werk liest, wird beschenkt und gewinnt nicht nur ein Verständnis der Religionen, sondern auch der Erkenntnis der Welt, in der wir leben" (Die Welt).
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