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Feb 14, 2014 the diary of mircea eliade, the seminal thinker on religion, during the period he served as a diplomat in portugal. Mar 05, 2020 mircea eliade, historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and author of novels, novellas, and short stories. Comparative studies in the religion and folklore of dacia and eastern europe 29dec1972. Free download or read online maitreyi pdf epub book. Mircea eliade romanian religious historian and author.
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Mircea eliade 19071986 was one of the twentieth centurys most groundbreaking and influential historians of religion. Archaic techniques of ecstasy bollingen, and more on. Mircea eliade founded the modern study of the history of religions and wrote many books, including essential sacred writings from around the world and. February 24 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago. In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion mircea eliade lays the groundwork for a western understanding of yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such conditionings as time and history. Mircea eliade march 190722 april 1986, author and historian of religions, was born in bucharest romania to gheorge eliade, an army officer, and ioana stoenescu vasile.
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