"Homo religiosus" in Mircea Eliade : : an anthropological evaluation / / by John A. Saliba.

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Superior document:Supplementa ad Numen : Altera series
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 1976.
Year of Publication:1976
Language:English
Series:Dissertationes ad historiam religionum pertinentes.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 210 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Anthropology and the history of religions
  • The study of man and his religions
  • Anthropology
  • aims and methods
  • Religion in anthropological studies
  • History of religions
  • aims and methods
  • Relation of history of religions to anthropology
  • Evaluation of Eliade
  • II. Eliade's concept of "religious man"
  • Primitive man in Eliade's works
  • Myth
  • Time
  • Rite
  • Symbol
  • Principal themes
  • Religious man
  • III. "Religious man" in contemporary anthropology
  • Primitive man in anthropology
  • Myth
  • Time
  • Ritual
  • Symbol
  • Magic, witchcraft and sorcery
  • Ethnomedicine
  • Religious change
  • New directions in the study of religion
  • Religious man
  • IV. An anthropological critique of Eliade's views on "religious man"
  • The validity of an anthropolitical evaluation
  • Eliade's aims, methods and sources
  • The concept of primitive in Eliade
  • Myth
  • Time
  • Ritual
  • Symbolism
  • Religious man
  • V. Issues and contributions
  • The study of religion
  • The definition of religion
  • Religion and magic
  • Religious and culture
  • Religion and philosophy
  • Religion and psychology
  • Religious as paradox
  • Religion and life-style
  • Religion and religious man.