The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (Midway Reprint) (Paperback)

by Mircea Eliade (Author) "Despite the manuals, periodicals, and bibliographies today available to scholars, it is progressively more difficult to keep up with the advances being made in all..." (more)
Key Phrases: initiation cabin, initiatory scenarios, initiatory structure, New York, High God, Max Müller (more...)

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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

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Product Details Paperback: 187 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (May 15, 1984) Language: English ISBN-10: 0226203867 ISBN-13: 978-0226203867 Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #907,074 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Despite the manuals, periodicals, and bibliographies today available to scholars, it is progressively more difficult to keep up with the advances being made in all areas of the history of religions. Read the first page

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New York, High God, Max Müller, North American, Andrew Lang, Georges Dumézil, Wilhelm Schmidt, Alfred Métraux, Great Father, Great God, Near East, New Year, Egon Schaden, Mircea Eliade, South American, Big House, Center of the World, New England, United States, Der Paradiesmythos, Religionen Indonesiens, Werner Müller, American Adam, Archives de Sociologie des Religions, Sierra Nevada

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This book cites 57 books:

• Primitive Religion by Robert H. Lowie on 5 pages
• Primitive Religion by Paul Radin on page 14, page 24, and page 27
• History of Religions: Essays in Methodology by Mircea Eliade on page 27, page 82, and page 134
• History of Ethnological Theory by Robert H Lowie on page 14, page 15, and page 16
• Australian Religions: An Introduction (Symbol, myth & ritual) by Mircea Eliade on page 86, and page 134

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• Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Douglas Allen on 4 pages
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• Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism by Jeffrey J. Kripal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• The Political Psyche by Andrew Samuels in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 187 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (May 15, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226203867
• ISBN-13: 978-0226203867
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #907,074 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Quest for Relevance--Still Relevant Today, January 14, 2007

By	Todd A. Foose - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The title chapter of the book makes the book as a whole worth a good read through, especially if you are in or are influenced by the field of Religious Studies. Already in the 1960's, Eliade was lamenting the over-specialization running rampant in many humanities fields which tended to make research about little more than an exercise in pointing out random curiosities rather than contributing to the ongoing cultural discourse of our own society. If you've ever felt like academia has grown too detached and irrelevant in recent decades, you'll find a kindred spirit in Eliade.