Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In "The Temptation of Saint Redon", Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's co...

"Journal I" is a story of revewal – of the new life that began for Mircea Eliade in the fall of 1945 when he became an expatriate. Eliade came to Paris virtually empty-handed, following the death of his first wife and the Soviet takeover of Romania,...

"Journal IV" is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar – his works are being transl...

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume "A History of Religious Ideas". Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffus...

In "The Quest Mircea Eliade" stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German re...

Preface 1. In the Beginning... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture – Mesolithic and Neolithic 3. The Mesopotamian Religions 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egy...

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In "The Forge and the Crucible", Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, a...

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent sch...