Shamanism Av Mircea Eliade

Translation of Forgerons et alchimistes.

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion,...

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian ¿gr¿cholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published...

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E....