History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
Mircea Eliade(1907–1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world’s foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade was the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, includingA History of Religious Ideasand ten novels.