History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
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As 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. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion of the 20th century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years, including the novels Maitreyi (or Bengal Nights), Noaptea de Sânziene (The Forbidden Forest), Isabel și apele diavolului (Isabel and the Devil's Waters) and Romanul Adolescentului Miop (Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent), and the novellas Domnișoara Christina (Miss Christina) and Tinerețe fără tinerețe (Youth Without Youth), which was made into a feature film by Frances Ford Coppola in 2007, starring Tim Roth.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best histories of religion I've ever read. Since it comes from an anthropological viewpoint, there is little of "this religion, good ... this religion, bad." It simply presents the data and allows the reader to form his or her own opinions.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It is a wonderful book. It gives you a comprehensive and coherent story of religious ideas starting from the Stone Age and ending with Judaism, Greek methodology, and India before Buddha. Eliade is a passionate writer. Although sometimes the author expects the readers to know quite a lot about the history of the period (understandable for the work of that scope), he is very clear with his main ideas. I would recommend this book not only to academicians, but to all those who would like to reflect on what we usually take for granted, religious values. What we often consider to be adversarial and incompatible, is in fact much more interconnected and coalesced than we would expect...