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.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
1985
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0226204030
ISBN13:
9780226204031
kindle Asin:
B00KMQC2ZI
A 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 Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.