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Original Title:	Das Heilige und das Profane: Vom Wesen des Religiösen
Edition Language:	English

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Mircea Eliade

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 6319 Users | 250 Reviews

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Title	:	The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Author	:	Mircea Eliade
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	October 23rd 1968 by Mariner Books (first published 1957)
Categories	:	Religion. Philosophy. Nonfiction. History. Anthropology. Fantasy. Mythology. Spirituality

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In the classic text The Sacred and the Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious.
This book of great originality and scholarship serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also encompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence.

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Even though it took awhile for me to finish this book, it certainly added some new aspects of the whole idea of how religion developed across time ever since pre-monotheistic religions. Which showed how gradually according to the 'pagan' religion that everytime a new religion got made, people got further away from the concept of God.I think that the whole idea of spirituality is misunderstood, but that is just my humble opinion.

A great work on comparative religion. Eliade is a master - knowledgable of all traditions, and able to collate and analyze them, yet not in a dry, rational way. The chief thesis here is that traditional man understood the entire cosmos, as well as time, as sacred. Modern man, due to materialism and naturalism, has rejected this aspect and thus lost his soul. Esotericists and liturgists will have to read this.

"I would recommend my reader to study the comparative history of religion so intently as to fill these dead chronicles with the emotional life of those who lived these religions. Then he will get some idea of what lives on the other side. The old religions with their sublime and ridiculous, their friendly and fiendish, symbols did not drop from the blue, but were born of this human soul that dwells within us at this moment. All those things, their primal forms, live on in us and may at any time

I just came back to my apartment from the Royal park in Oslo, where I finished reading this book. Much clearer and more accessible than some of his other books, and fascinating! Probably good as an introduction to Eliade's other works. I think the following quote can stand as a summary of Eliade's ideas and approach to religion: "... try to understand how the world presents itself to the eyes of religious man or, more precisely, how sacrality is revealed through the very structures of the

Every new initiate to any religion eventually finds themselves at a point when they're no longer satisfied by "Because God said so!" as the only answer to every question they ask. This book was recommended to me at a point when I was struggling to advance past the neophyte stage in my faith. It was incredibly frustrating that all the books I could find regarding the subject were written for absolute beginners, and I latched onto this book the way a drowning person would latch onto a lifesaver.

Eliade paints a picture of the religious world as different in quality from the nonreligious, profane world. Whereas the latter is homogeneous, inert, and mute, its ontology 'flat', the former is studded with sacred places and times. Here a higher, transcendent plane of existence seems to break into the world, forms a center for the religious to orient themselves in the world. The sacred can take form as nearly anything, from stones and trees in animist religions, to temples, or the house where

BO-RING.