Publication
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1978. Context: Originally published in French as Historire des croyances et des idees religieuses volume 1 : de l'age de la pierre aux mysteres d'Eleusis. Payot, Paris, 1976. Series: History of Religious Ideas (1). Responsibility: Mircea Eliade, translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. OCLC Number: 939556045. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xvii, 489 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes abbreviations, critical bibliography, index.
Call number
History / Eliada / vol 1
ISBN
9780226204017
Original publication date
1975
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Series Description: Examines the religions of ancient China, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, and Christianity, and explores each one's philosophical concepts. -- Library source
Description: Volume 1 lays the foundation of the history of religions, illuminating the creative moments of the major traditions from prehistoric times through classical Greece arguing that religious values and meaning grew with social and technological innovation. -- various sources
Table of Contents: 1. In the Beginning ... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians --
1. Orientatio. Tools to make tools. The ""domestication"" of fire --
2. The ""opaqueness"" of prehistoric documents --
3. Symbolic meanings of burials --
4. The controversy concerning deposits of bones --
5. Rock paintings: Images or symbols? --
6. The presence of woman --
7. Rites, thought, and imagination among the Paleolithic hunters --
2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture-Mesolithic and Neolithic --
8. A lost paradise --
9. Work, technology, and imaginary worlds. 10. The heritage of the Paleolithic hunters --
11. The domestication of food plants: Origin myths --
12. Woman and vegetation. Sacred space and periodical renewal of the world --
13. Neolithic religions of the Near East --
14. The spiritual edifice of the Neolithic --
15. Religious context of metallurgy: Mythology of the Iron Age --
3. The Mesopotamian Religions --
16. ""History begins at Sumer"" --
17. Man before his gods --
18. The first myth of the flood --
19. Descent to the underworld: Inanna and Dumuzi --
20. The Sumero-Akkadian synthesis --
21. Creation of the world. 22. Sacrality of the Mesopotamian sovereign --
23. Gilgamesh in quest of immortality --
24. Destiny and the gods --
4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt --
25. The unforgettable miracle: The ""First Time"" --
26. Theogonies and cosmogonies --
27. The responsibilities of an incarnate god --
28. The pharaoh's ascent to heaven --
29. Osiris, the murdered god --
30. Syncope: Anarchy, despair, and ""democratization"" of the afterlife --
31. Theology and politics of "" solarization"" --
32. Akh-en-Aton, or the unsuccessful reform --
33. Final synthesis: The association Re-Osiris. 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley --
34. Stone and banana --
35. Ceremonial centers and megalithic constructions --
36. The ""enigma of the megaliths"" --
37. Ethnography and prehistory --
38. The first cities of India --
39. Protohistorical religious concepts and their parallels in Hinduism --
40. Crete: Sacred caves, labyrinths, goddesses --
41. Characteristic features of Minoan religion --
42. Continuity of the pre-Hellenic religious structures --
6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites --
43. Anatolian symbiosis and Hittite syncretism. 44. The ""god who disappears"" --
45. Conquering the Dragon --
46. Kumarbi and sovereignty --
47. Conflicts between divine generations --
48. A Canaanite pantheon: Ugarit --
49. Baal conquers the sovereignty and triumphs over the Dragon --
50. The palace of Baal --
51. Baal confronts Mot: Death and return to life --
52. Canaanite religious vision --
7. ""When Israel Was a Child"" --
53. The first two chapters of Genesis --
54. Paradise lost. Cain and Abel --
55. Before and after the flood --
56. The religion of the patriarchs --
57. Abraham, ""Father of the Faith""
Location: COLLECTION: Religious Studies -- AREA: Religious Studies -- SECTION: History / Filing name: Eliade
Topics: In TinyCat -- See "Tags" above for our libraries topic areas. See "Subjects" below for LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) (note you can tour our library via Tags or LCSH, but LCHS are not available for all items in our holdings).
FYxxxx / FY2015 /
Description: Volume 1 lays the foundation of the history of religions, illuminating the creative moments of the major traditions from prehistoric times through classical Greece arguing that religious values and meaning grew with social and technological innovation. -- various sources
Table of Contents: 1. In the Beginning ... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians --
1. Orientatio. Tools to make tools. The ""domestication"" of fire --
2. The ""opaqueness"" of prehistoric documents --
3. Symbolic meanings of burials --
4. The controversy concerning deposits of bones --
5. Rock paintings: Images or symbols? --
6. The presence of woman --
7. Rites, thought, and imagination among the Paleolithic hunters --
2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture-Mesolithic and Neolithic --
8. A lost paradise --
9. Work, technology, and imaginary worlds. 10. The heritage of the Paleolithic hunters --
11. The domestication of food plants: Origin myths --
12. Woman and vegetation. Sacred space and periodical renewal of the world --
13. Neolithic religions of the Near East --
14. The spiritual edifice of the Neolithic --
15. Religious context of metallurgy: Mythology of the Iron Age --
3. The Mesopotamian Religions --
16. ""History begins at Sumer"" --
17. Man before his gods --
18. The first myth of the flood --
19. Descent to the underworld: Inanna and Dumuzi --
20. The Sumero-Akkadian synthesis --
21. Creation of the world. 22. Sacrality of the Mesopotamian sovereign --
23. Gilgamesh in quest of immortality --
24. Destiny and the gods --
4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt --
25. The unforgettable miracle: The ""First Time"" --
26. Theogonies and cosmogonies --
27. The responsibilities of an incarnate god --
28. The pharaoh's ascent to heaven --
29. Osiris, the murdered god --
30. Syncope: Anarchy, despair, and ""democratization"" of the afterlife --
31. Theology and politics of "" solarization"" --
32. Akh-en-Aton, or the unsuccessful reform --
33. Final synthesis: The association Re-Osiris. 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley --
34. Stone and banana --
35. Ceremonial centers and megalithic constructions --
36. The ""enigma of the megaliths"" --
37. Ethnography and prehistory --
38. The first cities of India --
39. Protohistorical religious concepts and their parallels in Hinduism --
40. Crete: Sacred caves, labyrinths, goddesses --
41. Characteristic features of Minoan religion --
42. Continuity of the pre-Hellenic religious structures --
6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites --
43. Anatolian symbiosis and Hittite syncretism. 44. The ""god who disappears"" --
45. Conquering the Dragon --
46. Kumarbi and sovereignty --
47. Conflicts between divine generations --
48. A Canaanite pantheon: Ugarit --
49. Baal conquers the sovereignty and triumphs over the Dragon --
50. The palace of Baal --
51. Baal confronts Mot: Death and return to life --
52. Canaanite religious vision --
7. ""When Israel Was a Child"" --
53. The first two chapters of Genesis --
54. Paradise lost. Cain and Abel --
55. Before and after the flood --
56. The religion of the patriarchs --
57. Abraham, ""Father of the Faith""
Location: COLLECTION: Religious Studies -- AREA: Religious Studies -- SECTION: History / Filing name: Eliade
Topics: In TinyCat -- See "Tags" above for our libraries topic areas. See "Subjects" below for LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) (note you can tour our library via Tags or LCSH, but LCHS are not available for all items in our holdings).
FYxxxx / FY2015 /
Physical description
xvii, 489 p.; 23 cm
Description
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
Language
Original language
French
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One of the best histories of religion I've ever read. Since it comes from an anthropological viewpoint, there is little of "this religion, good ... this religion, bad." It simply presents the data and allows the reader to form his or her own opinions.
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It is a wonderful book. It gives you a comprehensive and coherent story of religious ideas starting from the Stone Age and ending with Judaism, Greek methodology, and India before Buddha. Eliade is a passionate writer. Although sometimes the author expects the readers to know quite a lot about the
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