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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 : From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity / Mircea Eliade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eliade, Mircea, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- Religions--History.
- Religions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (581 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity-all are encompassed in this volume.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 16. The Religions of Ancient China
- 17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation
- 18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries
- 19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible
- 20. Roman Religion: From Its Origins to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186)
- 21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae
- 22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology
- 23. The History of Buddhism from Mahākāśyapa to Nāgārjuna. Jainism after Mahāvīra
- 24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahābhārata and the Bhagavad Gītā
- 25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah
- 26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation
- 27. New Iranian Syntheses
- 28. The Birth of Christianity
- 29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period
- 30. The Twilight of the Gods
- List of Abbreviations
- Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies
- Index
- Notes:
- Originally published in French under the title Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. Vol. 2: De Gautama Bouddha au triomphe du christianisme. © Payot, Paris, 1978.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226027357
- 022602735X
- OCLC:
- 1048427968
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