Traditionalism - Charles, Prince of Wales, Mircea Eliade, Julius Evola, Perennial Philosophy, Wolfgang Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Seraphim Rose (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Charles, Prince of Wales, Mircea Eliade, Julius Evola, Perennial philosophy, Wolfgang Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Seraphim Rose, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Henry Corbin, Marco Pallis, Hossein Nasr, Huston Smith, Tyr, Traditionalist School, Kathleen Raine, Hakim Bey, Angus Macnab, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Jean-Louis Michon, Whitall Perry, Mateus Soares de Azevedo, World Wisdom, James Cutsinger, Harry Oldmeadow, Alfred Bloom, Miss Martindale, Tage Lindbom, Kurt Almqvist, Joseph Epes Brown, Jean Bies, Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne, Francis Clive-Ross, Ali Lakhani, Development criticism, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Inner Traditions - Bear & Company, Studies in Comparative Religion, William Stoddart, Leo Schaya, Michel Valsan, Bernard Philip Kelly, Jean-Pierre LaFouge, John Herlihy, Revolt Against the Modern World, Al Akbariyya. Excerpt: Mircea Eliade (Romanian pronunciation: March 13 1907 - April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them. His literary works belong to the fantasy and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sanziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel i apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") and the Novel of the Nearsighted...