description: The author's purpose is to interpret, and to ease, an encounter which history has made inevitable. But Professor Eliade is too good a scholar, and it too wise in his judgment, to fall into syncretist fallacies. He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennial meaning and destiny of man...
title: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
titlecomplete: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
genres: History, Psychology, Mythology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Cultural, Theology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 397
publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc