by Mircea Eliade · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780529019158
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«Patterns in Comparative Religion» is Mircea Eliade's essay on comparative religion, published by New American Library in paperback (484 pages).
Eliade approaches the sacred as an irreducible experience and analyzes human efforts to live in a sacred sphere across different cultures and eras. The study surveys beliefs, rituals, symbols and myths that persist with variations, and argues that the religious phenomenon is universal in its fundamental structures.
Work originally published in French as «Traité d'histoire des religions» (1949). This edition is from 1974.
For those interested in comparative religion, mythology, anthropology and the history of religions.
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.
