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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religionby: Mircea Eliade  List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 290 EAN: 9780156792011 ISBN: 015679201X Label: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 23, 1987 Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Studio: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Lost Worlds of the SacredThe world contains two kinds of people: those who have read Mircea Eliade, and those who should do so as soon as possible. In one reader's humble opinion he is worth 3 of Lévi-Strauss and 6 of Carl Jung. Growing up immersed in Romanian folkways and Orthodox ritual, he was living in the archaic world of myth and symbol, so it's no surprise that he writes about it so convincingly. He went to India to study Yoga when few Europeans had even heard the word; and while he was there (to ... Read More Rating: - Sacred and the Profane Years ago, I was assigned this book in one of my university classes. I number it in my most memorable and personally influential works that I have ever read. At the time, I had just begun to study archaeology and had very little understanding of the concept of ethnocentricism. My personal way of thinking was very black and white. The only real experience that I had with the dichotomies of the sacred versus the profane at that point was my own experiences. The Sacred and the Profane gave ... Read More Rating: - Whew.Yes, the sacred and the profane is discussed here. And guess what? They make sense. It's no secret, just sociology. Good sociology, too, none of your Discovery-Channel, sixth-tier, make every middle class viewer look down on those that are different from a Durkheim-style-deviance-arrogance and pray that they can forget just how screwed up they are kind of stuff. The good stuff. The meat, the bone and the marrow. Unapologetic, yet refined and in no way obscene. Great read. Well written, and, I can only ... Read More Rating: - A marvelous workI read this book with a great excitement. It tells people about essence of our religion. In my opinion, this book is quite good companion for religious comparison study. Rating: - A brilliant introduction to the study of religionI decided to read this book for a religion-course I'm taking, and I must say I'm happy I did! Mircea Eliade was a Rumanian historian of religions, philosopher and author, in addition to being a vaguely religious man himself. This book was written to serve as an introduction to the study of religion for new students and the interested layman, and it does so excellently. Eliade was interestingly enough a member of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, back home in Rumania, the organization of Corneliu Codreanu. ... Read More 
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