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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Saints Faith without Borders

Meltzer Francoise, Elsner Jas

ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...

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Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred

Kripal Jeffrey J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...

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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3 From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226204055, University of Chicago Press, March 1988
367 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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Quest History and Meaning in Religion

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226203867, University of Chicago Press, May 1985
187 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226204031, University of Chicago Press, January 1985
580 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1 From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226204017, University of Chicago Press, April 1981
508 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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Forge and the Crucible The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226203904, University of Chicago Press, March 1979
238 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions Essays in Comparative Religion

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226203928, University of Chicago Press, March 1978
158 pp., 23x15 cm

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...

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