TY - BOOK AU - Mason,John R., TI - Reading and responding to Mircea Eliade's History of religious ideas: the lure of the late Eliade AV - BL 48.E383 M37 PY - 1993/// CY - Lewiston(NY) PB - Edwin Mellen Press N1 - Includes index; Contents; I. The Last War Against Sleep --; A. Eliade's Path Toward a History of Religious Ideas --; B.A Strategy for Reading an Unfinished History --; 1. Anthropology --; 2. Seminology --; 3. Morphology of Civilizational Complexes --; 4. Comparative Symbolics --; 5. Normative Judgments --; a. Urge Toward the Universal --; b. Emphasis on the Esoteric --; c. Preference for the Archaic --; d. Commitment to the Transhistorical --; III. Some Questions for Future Study --; A. The Question of Science --; B. The Question of Goethe --; C. The Question of Fascism --; D. Must Ontology be Archaic? --; IV. Conclusion: The Moon Wanes; The Moon Waxes ER -