by Mircea Eliade · Editorial Kairós SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472454323
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«La búsqueda: Historia y sentido de las religiones» is the essay by Mircea Eliade, published by Editorial Kairós in paperback (238 pages, in Spanish).
Mircea Eliade defends the cultural function of the study of religions in a secularized society and proposes a new humanism open to other spiritual traditions. He combines historical, phenomenological and hermeneutic perspectives to reflect on myth, the sacred and the transcendent.
The work belongs to the Sabiduría Perenne collection from Editorial Kairós, features a translation by Alfonso Colodrón and was published in April 1999.
Recommended for readers interested in the history of religions and in dialogue between cultures, both specialists and the general public.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
