The Encyclopedia of Religion, Հատորներ 1-2

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Mircea Eliade
Macmillan Pub., 1993 - 4507 էջ
Through 2734 articles by international scholars, the world's major religions of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam are explained in hundreds of articles that are almost like small encyclopaedias themselves. It provides a Who's Who of religious history - the gods and goddesses, the deities and demons, of world mythology, as well as the men and women who have affected the course of religion - and human history - as priests, popes, and prophets; saints, scholars and shamans; reformers and revolutionaries; teachers and theologians.

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Հեղինակի մասին (1993)

Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of Bucharest and, from 1928 to 1932, at the University of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the University of Bucharest and, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1957, Eliade was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, known and appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels and volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story." Both Nights of Serampore and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger evoke the mythical geography and time of India. Mythology, fantasy, and autobiography are skillfully combined in Eliade's tales.

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