Full name: The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

Author: Mircea Eliade Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780226203867 0226203867

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities."—Joseph M. Kitagawa, Religious Education Similar books: Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero Killing the Buddha by Peter Manseau Patterns in Comparative Religion by Mircea Eliade When Religion Becomes Evil by Charles Kimball American Grace by Robert D. Putnam The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade The World's Wisdom by Philip Novak The Handy Religion Answer Book by John Renard Seven Theories of Religion by Daniel L. Pals Righteous by Lauren Sandler 101 Myths of the Bible by Gary Greenberg The Devil by Peter Stanford The God Virus by Darrel W. Ray Losing Moses on the Freeway by Chris Hedges Hinduism by Kim Knott