History of religious ideas, volume 3 : from Muhammad to the age of reforms / Mircea Eliade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eliade, Mircea, Author.

Contributor:

Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane.

Hiltebeitel, Alf.

Standardized Title:

Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam from approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries. Eliade's vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled. In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual traditions, he explores the interactions of the three religions and shows their continuing mutual influence to be subtle but unmistakable. As in his previous work, Eliade pays particular attention to heresies, folk beliefs, and cults of secret wisdom, such as alchemy and sorcery, and continues the discussion, begun in earlier volumes, of pre-Christian shamanistic practices in northern Europe and the syncretistic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. These subcultures, he maintains, are as important as the better-known orthodoxies to a full understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

31. The Religions of Ancient Eurasia: Turko-Mongols, Finno-Ugrians, Balto-Slavs

32. The Christian Churches up to the Iconoclastic Crisis (Eighth to Ninth Centuries)

33. Muhammad and the Unfolding of Islam

34. Western Catholicism from Charlemagne to Joachim of Floris

35. Muslim Theologies and Mystical Traditions

36. Judaism from the Bar Kokhba Revolt to Hasidism

37. Religious Movements in Europe: From the Late Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation

38. Religion, Magic, and Hermetic Traditions before and after the Reformation

39. Tibetan Religions

Abbreviations

Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies

Index

Notes:

Translation of Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses.

Orignally published in French under the title Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. Vol. 3: De Muhomes á l'âge des Réformes. © Payot, Paris, 1983.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226147727

022614772X

OCLC:

1048428316