Mircea Eliade, a historian of religion, looks at how traditional people experience the world as sacred, and how modern people have lost that sense. He introduces the idea of hierophany, the manifestation of the sacred in an ordinary thing, and shows how it organizes sacred space, such as temples and the center of the world, and sacred time, such as festivals that recall myth. He also examines nature as sacred and the question of how religious symbolism persists in a secular life.
It suits students of religion, anthropology, and philosophy, and general readers curious about myth and ritual. It is short and clear, and it offers a vocabulary that is useful for reading other works on religious experience.
Deep and contemplative; a demanding read.
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- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Humanitas
- ISBN
- 9789735016074
- Language
- RO
