Images and Symbols - Studies in Religious Symbolism

Informationen zum Autor Mircea EliadeTranslated by Philip Mairet Klappentext Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion! mythology! and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning! but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development. Zusammenfassung Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

Product details

• Authors: Mircea Eliade, Eliade Mircea
• Assisted by: Philip Mairet (Translation), Mairet Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.1991
• EAN: 9780691020686
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02068-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 217 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Mythos (Paperback); Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; RELIGION / Spirituality, Religion: general, Spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience