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Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism

By Mircea Eliade

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780691238340, 069102068X, 9780691020686
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
475 kB (486073 bytes)
Pages
208\0
Time added
2024-02-02 06:59:41

Description

Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

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