num_pages: 255
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...
language: English
title: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
titlecomplete: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
genres: Anthropology, Cultural, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Theology, Mythology, History
ratings_count: 397
publisher: Harper & Row