History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 : From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity /

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 Iran...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eliade, Mircea (Autor)
Otros Autores: Trask, Willard R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Temas:
RELIGION / General.
comparative religion, religious studies, ancient china, brahmanism, hinduism, gautama buddha, india, roman, rome, pagan faiths, pagans, paganism, celtic, celts, german, germany, europe, asia, judaism, jews, hellenistic period, iranian syntheses, birth of christianity, god, faith, israel, jesus christ, intellectual history, spirituality, philosophy, salvation, new eschatology, gnosis, syncretism, torah, bacchanals, bliss, enlightenment.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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