by Mircea Eliade · Sansoni · tapa dura · ISBN 9788838317026
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«Storia delle credenze e delle idee religiose. Vol. 1» is Mircea Eliade's essay on the history of religions, in hardback, published by Sansoni.
It starts with prehistoric magical-religious behaviours and reaches the Eleusinian mysteries. It covers the religions of Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, Israel, the Indo-Europeans, Vedic India, Greece and Iran, showing the fundamental unity of religious phenomena and the novelty of their expressions.
First volume of the series «Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses», originally published in 1975. This 1996 Italian edition has 508 pages.
Recommended for those interested in the history of religions, mythology and religious thought.
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.
