Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries_ The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities by Mircea Eliade PDF

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Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities by Mircea Eliade PDF



Written by Mircea Eliade (Author), Philip Mairet (Translator)



The author's purpose is to interpret, and to ease, an encounter which history has made inevitable. But Professor Eliade is too good a scholar, and it too wise in his judgment, to fall into syncretist fallacies.



He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennial meaning and destiny of man...



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