Myths, dreams, and mysteries : the encounter between contemporary faiths and archaic realities /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper & Row,
1967, ©1960.
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| Edition: | 1st Harper torchbook ed. |
| Series: | Library of religion and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Contemporary faiths. The myths of the modern world ; The myth of the noble savage or, the prestige of the beginning
- Archaic realities. Nostalgia for paradise in the primitive traditions ; Sense-experience and mystical experience among primitives ; Symbolisms of ascension and "waking dreams" ; Power and holiness in the history of religions ; Mother Earth and the cosmic hierogamies ; Mysteries and spiritual regeneration
- The encounter : a test-case. Religious symbolism and the modern man's anxiety.