By Mircea Eliade
A hugely unique and scholarly paintings on spirituality by way of famous historian Mircea Eliade
In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that whereas modern humans think their global is totally profane, or secular, they nonetheless now and then locate themselves hooked up unconsciously to the reminiscence of whatever sacred. it truly is this premise that either drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred—as it has manifested in area, time, nature and the cosmos, and lifestyles itself—and buttresses his expansive view of the human experience.
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