by Mircea Eliade · Herder Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425420139
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«La India» is Mircea Eliade's essay, published by Herder Editorial in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Chronicles of Mircea Eliade's stay in India: jungles, the Himalayas, overcrowded trains, religious festivals and a Hindu monastery. The author addresses the situation of women, religious and nationalist mysticism, and his encounters with Rabindranath Tagore, reflecting the country's contrasts.
First edition in Spanish published in Barcelona in 1997; translation by Joaquín Carrigós.
A work of interest for readers of philosophy and anthropology and for those interested in the culture and spirituality of India.
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.
