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Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism

by Mircea Eliade · 1952

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Mircea Eliade—one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic—shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.

Subject
philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thisanthropologyanthropologyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of this
Genre
mythologymythologyMore like thisLess of thismyths and folkloremyths and folkloreMore like thisLess of this
Themes
religionreligionMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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