The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion

by Mircea Eliade

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press

, 2024

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

Product Details

• Title: The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion
• Author: Mircea Eliade
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780226159379, 9780226203966, 0226203964, 022615937X
• Resource ID: LLS:9780226159379
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-09T07:53:27Z

About Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (March 13 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential.