by Mircea Eliade · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449305139
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«Lo sagrado y lo profano» is Mircea Eliade's essay on the history of religions, published by Ediciones Paidós in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Mircea Eliade studies the sacred in archaic societies through space, time, myths and cosmic religion. He asks whether religiosity is a structure of consciousness that transcends the opposition between sacred and profane, and warns of the loss implied by radical secularization.
Volume 1 of the Orientalia collection from Paidós. This edition lists Ramón Alfonso Díez Aragón and Luis Gil Fernández as translators.
For readers interested in the history of religions, philosophy and cultural anthropology.
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.
