Patterns in Comparative ReligionIn this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena--the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted. |
Contents
Sky Symbolism | |
Ascension Myths | |
Ascension Rites | |
Ascension Symbolism | |
Conclusions | |
THE SUN AND SUNWORSHIP 36 Hierophanies of the Sun and Rationalization | |
The Solarization of Supreme Beings | |
Africa Indonesia | |
The Structure of Hierophanies | |
The Revaluation of Hierophanies | |
The Complexity of Primitive Religion | |
THE SKY AND SKY GODS 11 The Sacredness of the | |
Australian Sky Gods | |
Sky Gods Among the Andaman Islanders Africans | |
Deus Otiosus | |
New Divine Forms Substituted for the Sky Gods | |
Fusion and Substitution | |
The Antiquity of Supreme Beings of the | |
Sky Gods among the Peoples of the Arctic and Central Asia | |
Mesopotamia | |
Dyaus Varuna | |
Varuna and Sovereignty | |
Iranian Sky Gods | |
Ouranos | |
Zeus | |
Jupiter Odin Taranis | |
Storm Gods | |
Fecundators | |
The Spouse of the Great Mother | |
Yahweh | |
The Supplanting of Sky Gods by Fecundators | |
Solarization among the Munda | |
Solar Cults | |
Descent from the | |
The Sun as Hierophant and Psychopomp | |
Egyptian Sun Cults | |
Solar Cults in the Classical East and the Mediterranean | |
India the Ambivalence of the | |
Sun Heroes the Dead and the Elect | |
THE MOON AND ITS MYSTIQUE 47 The Moon and Time | |
The Coherence of all Lunar Epiphanies | |
The Moon and the Waters | |
The Moon and Vegetation | |
The Moon and Fertility | |
The Moon Woman and Snakes | |
Lunar Symbolism | |
The Moon and Death | |
The Moon and Initiation | |
The Symbolism of Lunar Becoming | |
CosmoBiology and Mystical Physiology | |
The Moon and Fate | |
Lunar Metaphysics | |
THE WATERS AND WATER SYMBOLISM 60 Water and the Seeds of Things | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Patterns in Comparative Religion |
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| Translated by | Rosemary Sheed |
| Contributor | John C. Holt |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 2022 |
| ISBN | 1496208323, 9781496208323 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / General |
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