New!Websites for Authors
Stock up for summer! Buy 2 Books đź“š Get 1 FREE
Tertulia Logo
New!Websites for Authors
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World: A Thematic Sourcebook on the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade

Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World: A Thematic Sourcebook on the History of Religions

Mircea Eliade

Paperback
Regular price$25.00With free membership trial$12.5050% off your first book+ Free shipping
In Stock– Ships within one business day

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

Brings together in one volume the entirety of Eliade's "Gods, Goddesses, and Myths of Creation; Man and the Sacred, Death, Afterlife, and" Eschatology; and "From Medicine Men to Muhammad." Arranges thematically the essential documents of all major religious traditions, excepting Christianity and Judaism. Originally published as "From Primitives to Zen."

Book Details

  • Publisher: HarperOne
  • Publish Date: Dec 20th, 1991
  • Pages: 672
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.18in - 6.16in - 1.75in - 1.68lb
  • EAN: 9780062503046
  • Categories: • Comparative Religion• Reference• Eastern

More books to explore

Book Cover for: The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume 1: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism; Volume 2: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jack Miles
Book Cover for: Christianity and World Religions: An Introduction to the World's Major Faiths, Derek Cooper
Book Cover for: Christianity and New Religious Movements: An Introduction to the World's Newest Faiths, Derek Cooper
Book Cover for: The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent: An Informed Response to Islam's War with Christianity, Erwin W. Lutzer
Book Cover for: Understanding Islam and Christianity: Beliefs That Separate Us and How to Talk about Them, Josh McDowell
Book Cover for: Letters of Frithjof Schuon: Reflections on the Perennial Philosophy, Frithjof Schuon
Book Cover for: Rose Book of Bible Charts, Volume 3, Rose Publishing
Book Cover for: The Eye of the Heart: A New Translation with Selected Letters, Frithjof Schuon
Book Cover for: Unmasking the New Age, Douglas Groothuis
Book Cover for: God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Mirabai Starr
Book Cover for: The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, Peter L. Berger
Book Cover for: The Slavic Myths, Noah Charney
Book Cover for: The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions, Karen Armstrong
Book Cover for: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong
Book Cover for: Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together, Dalai Lama

About the Author

Eliade, Mircea: - Mircea Eliade founded the modern study of the history of religions and wrote many books, including Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World and The Sacred and the Profane.

Ioan P. Couliano was the professional heir to Mircea Eliade and the author of Out of This World and The Tree of Gnosis.

More books by Mircea Eliade

Book Cover for: The Sacred and Profane, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Bengal Nights, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions: The A-To-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Patterns in Comparative Religion, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent, Mircea Eliade
Book Cover for: Time, Death, and the Unspeakable Secret, Mircea Eliade