Couliano - Eliade guide to world religions

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291 E

Eliade

Personal Author:

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.

Title:

The Eliade guide to world religions / Mircea Eliade, Ioan P. Couliano, with Hillary S. Wiesner.

Variant title:

Guide to world religions

Publication info:

San Francisco, Calif. : HarperSanFrancisco, c1991.

Physical description:

xi. 301 p. Index (pp.259-301)

Summary:

 

A survey of the world’s major religions, religious personalities, histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques, distilled from the late Mircea Eliade’s three-volume History of religious ideas and drawing on the 16-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of religion, which Eliade edited.

An all-new completely up-to-date digest of Eliade’s monumental three-volume History of Religious Ideas, distilling Eliade’s lifework into one accessible A-Z volume. Includes both an index and brief identifications of key religions, sacred books, and spiritual themes.

Subject term:

Religions

ISBN:

0060621451

Tags:

Buddhism, Christianity, dictionary, Hinduism, history, Judaism, mythology, philosophy, references, religion, religions, religious, religious history, World Religions

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