From primitives to Zen: a thematic sourcebook of the history of religions.
Detalles de publicación: London, Collins, ©1967.Descripción: xxv, 645 pages, 23 cmTipo de contenido:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 291/.09
- BL 74 .E4 1967a
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Bibliography: p. 635-643.
God, Goddesses, and Supernatural Being -- Divinities of Primitives (Pre-Literate Societies) -- African High Gods -- North American Indians -- Polynesia, Colombia, Labrador, New Guinea -- A Myth of Beginning and End -- Myths of the Origin of Death -- Myths of the Food -- Man and the Sacred -- Sacred World, Sacred life, Sacred Time -- Origin and Destiny of the Soul–and the Powers of Mana -- Types of Sacrifice -- Rituals, Oracles, Prescriptions, Devotion -- Prayers and Hymns -- Patterns of Initiation -- Death, Afterlife, Eschatology -- Gods, Heroes, and Death -- Death and the Intermediate State -- Funerary Rituals -- Egyptian Conceptions of Death -- The Roads to the Nether World -- Greek and Roman Conceptions of Death and Immorality -- Paradises -- Messianic Prophecies and Millenarian Movements -- Specialists of the Sacred: From Medicine Men Mystics and Founders of Religions Holy Personages -- Forms of Asceticism -- Prophets and Founders of Religions -- Spiritual Techniques and Mystical Experiences -- Techniques of Yoga -- Buddhism -- Islam -- Speculations on Man and God -- Different Understanding of the Human Condition -- Humility, Wisdom, Tolerance -- Egyptian Teaching -- Greek Thought -- Jain Belief -- Buddha Explains the Middle Path -- The Ultimate Reality: Questions and Answers --Reflecting on Gods, The Self, and the God -- Ethnic and Geographic Cross-Reference Index
"My purpose in compiling this source-book," writes Dr. Eliade, " has been to help the student and interested readers to confront and understand the religious life of ancient and non-Western man." Included here are the essential documents from all the important religious traditions (excepting Judaism and Christianity) arranged according to major recurrent themes. For, says the the author, only by studying a number of religious text relating to the same subject is their similarities and differences. Major themes documented: Gods, Myths of Creation, Man and the Sacred, Death, After-Life, Eschatology, Specialists of the Sacred, From Medicine-Man to Mystics and Founders of Religion, Speculations on Man and God.