Reading and responding to Mircea Eliade's History of religious ideas: the lure of the late Eliade. John R. Mason
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TextPublication details: Lewiston(NY) : Edwin Mellen Press, c1993.Description: iv,121p.; 24cmLOC classification: - BL 48.E383 M37
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| BOOKS | Saint Andrew's Theological Seminary Mosher Library | BL 48.E383 M37 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33919 |
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.
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