The Sacred and the Profane

By Mircea Eliade

Categories: Religion & Spirituality

A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

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• Jordan Peterson: “I read Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane at least five times over the last two decades. I thought it was a masterpiece the first time I read it. But every time I reread it, I thought it was better.”