The Sacred And The Profane: The Nature of Religion

ISBN-13:	9780156792011
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/23/1968
Series:	Harvest Book
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	77,067
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.66(d)

A groundbreaking work on myth, symbol, and ritual by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time. In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself—and buttresses his expansive view of the human experience.