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Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World

  • Hardback
  • 672 pages
  • Publisher: Harper and Row
  • 15.7 x 23.4 x 4.5 cm

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For those seeking diverse spiritual insights today.

Essential Sacred Writings helps you explore global faiths.

You gain a deeper understanding of world religions.

Discover the rich tapestry of global spirituality with this collection of essential sacred writings from various traditions, perfect for exploring diverse beliefs and practices.

Formerly published as "From Primitives to Zen", this book is a collection of religious writings from traditions other than Christianity and Judaism. Selections are excerpted from texts such as the Quran, the Book of the Dead, the Rig Veda, the Bhagavad Gita, the Homeric Hymns and the Popul Vuh.;The thematic arrangement allows readers to compare the essential structure and the divergent variety of religious expression throughout the ages and around the world. Descriptions of deities from various sources are arranged together as are myths of creation and of origin, understandings of death and depictions of the afterlife, teachings on the relationship between humanity and the sacred, various religious rituals and practices, prayers and hymns. Indexes allow the reader to substitute an ethnic or geographic arrangement for the thematic one.
Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World and Sacred And The Profane
Sacred And The ProfaneEssential Sacred Writings from Around the World

  • Title

    Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World

  • Author

    Mircea Eliade

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Harper and Row

  • Published

    December 1991

  • Additional Information

    xxv, 644 p.;

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    738g

  • Page Count

    672

  • Dimensions

    15.7 x 23.4 x 4.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780062503046

  • ISBN-10

    0062503049

  • Eden Code

    99550

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