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Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism

Contributors:

By (Author) Mircea Eliade
Translated by Philip Mairet

ISBN:

9780691020686

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

3rd September 1991

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Spirituality and religious experience

Dewey:

291.37

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

192

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 216mm

Weight:

227g

Description

Shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is an essential function of human consciousness. The author analyzes powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

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