by Mircea Eliade, Ioan P. Culianu · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518388860
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«Handbuch der Religionen» is the handbook of religions by Mircea Eliade and Ioan P. Culianu, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (366 pages, in German).
A work presenting the world's major religions and studying their founders, prophets, sacred books and spiritual traditions in a comparative key. For Eliade, religion is a system: each belief is understood within its historical and cultural framework.
German edition of the Dictionnaire des religions, translated from French by Lieselotte Ronte with the collaboration of H. S. Wieser; Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 2386.
For students, academics and readers interested in the comparative history of religions.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. 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. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
