Quest
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20th century
A01=Mircea Eliade
academic engagement
Author_Mircea Eliade
Category=QRAX
Category=QRVK
comparative religions
cultural analysis
culture
dualism
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eshatology
finding connections
geography
historical study
history
humanities
literary review
myth
mythical
mythology
new humanism
origins
over specialization
religion
religious studies
sacred
secularism
survey introduction
western society
Product details
- ISBN 9780226203867
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 1984
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning."
"Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."—Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education
"Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."—Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education
