A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

Mircea Eliade

Book 2 of History of Religious Ideas

Language: English

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: Jan 15, 1985

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Pages: 715

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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.

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