By Mircea Eliade
In quantity 2 of this enormous paintings, Mircea Eliade maintains his magisterial growth throughout the historical past of spiritual principles. The religions of historic China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman faith, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic interval, the Iranian syntheses, and the beginning of Christianity—all are encompassed during this quantity.
Read Online or Download A History of Religious Ideas: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity PDF
Similar comparative religion books
1915. Christians think that they've a divine monopoly on fact. they don't. This e-book irrefutably indicates how a lot of Christianity's symbols are from a ways past ''pagan'' resources. This ebook doesn't disparage Christianity yet offers a connecting hyperlink for what has been a continual resource of symbolic wisdom passed right down to us from the ancients.
From the start, the Abrahamic faiths-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-have under pressure the significance of transmitting spiritual identification from one new release to the subsequent. this day, that maintaining challenge hasn't ever been extra challenged. Will youngsters have a religion to steer them? How can religion traditions anchor spiritual attachments during this secular, skeptical tradition?
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe their origins with shut connection with the narrative of Abraham, together with the advanced tale of Abraham's relation to Hagar. This quantity sketches the heritage of interpretation of a few of the major passages during this narrative, no longer least the verses which kingdom that during Abraham all of the countries of the earth may be blessed.
From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship
Ebook via Turner, Harold W.
- World Religions
- Mircea Eliade
- The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice
- The sacred magic of the angels
- Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation
Extra info for A History of Religious Ideas: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
Sample text
Girardot, "Myth and Meaning in the Tao Te Ching," p. 304. 22 THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA condition that existed before the triumph of civilization. But it was precisely this "return to nature" that was objected to by all those who wanted to inaugurate a just and duly policed society, governed by the norms, and inspired by the examples, of the fabulous kings and civilizing heroes. 131. Confucius: The power of the rites It could be said that in ancient China all the trends of religious thought shared a certain number of fundamental ideas.
Eliade, Yoga, pp. 53 ff. We may add that the "deep and silent" breathing of ecstasy resembled the breathing of animals during hibernation, and it is known that, for the Chinese, the fullness and spontaneity of animal life constituted the supreme example of an existence in perfect harmony with the cosmos. 88. Preface to the treatise "Oral Formulas for Embryonic Respiration," trans. Maspero, in "Les procedes," p. 198. 89. On the Taoist pantheon dwelling in the human body, see Maspero, Le taoi'sme, pp.
In another cosmogonic fragment (chap. 25), the Tao is denominated "an undifferentiated and perfect being, born before Heaven and Earth .... We can consider it the Mother of this 47. Max Kaltenmark, Lao tseu et Ie taoisme, p. 30; see also Granet, La pensee chinoise, pp. 300 fT. 48. Kaltenmark, Lao tseu, p. ' " 49. After Kaltenmark's translation in "La naissance du monde en Chine," p. 463. This scheme of serial procreations is used by almost all of the philosophical schools, from the Yi Ching to the Neo-Confucianists; cf.