{"title":"Mircea Eliade","description":"\u003cp\u003eMircea Eliade’s works delve deeply into the study of religion and spirituality, exploring the profound ways in which sacred myths and rituals shape human experience. His writings offer insightful analyses of religious symbols, practices, and beliefs across cultures, revealing the universal patterns underlying diverse spiritual traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom comprehensive histories of religious ideas to focused studies on shamanism, yoga, and myth, Eliade’s books engage with the mysterious and the transcendent. 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The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory of Religious Ideas, Volume 2\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a journey through these historical religious landscapes, providing insights and understanding of each belief system. Eliade's comprehensive approach examines how these religions developed, interacted, and influenced one another, adding to the broader tapestry of human spiritual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796319621356,"sku":"9780226204031","price":148.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14268593482268.jpg?v=1757090718"},{"product_id":"history-of-religious-ideas-volume-3-by-mircea-eliade-9780226204055","title":"History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume completes the immensely learned three-volume \u003ci\u003eA History of Religious Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. 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Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, \u003cem\u003eThe Myth of the Eternal Return\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. 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The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade, surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism was first observed—to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give primacy of place to the figure of the shaman—at once magician and medicine man, healer and miracle-doer, priest, mystic, and poet. Synthesising the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology, \u003ci\u003eShamanism\u003c\/i\u003e remains the reference book of choice for those interested in this practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Eliade writes of the shamans with [a] masterly combination of sympathy and detachment.'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Eliade is the most informative guide to the modern mythologies.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Frank Kermode, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A close and detailed yet comparative study of shamanism...[It] has become the standard work on the subject.'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Clearly the best work on Shamanism published so far.'\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eReview of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558998753516,"sku":"9780691210667","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691210667-shamanism.jpg?v=1776926186"},{"product_id":"yoga-by-mircea-eliade-9780691279374","title":"Yoga","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking account of the theory and practice of yoga, from the Vedas to the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark book, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of yoga. 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