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Birth and Rebirth

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ISBN-10: 0882143581

ISBN-13: 9780882143583

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask, Michael Meade

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Spring Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of Bucharest and, from 1928 to 1932, at the University of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the University of Bucharest and, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1957, Eliade was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, known and appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels and volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic…    

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Foreword
Introduction
Foreword to the New Edition
Initiation Mysteries in Primitive Religions
The Initiatory Ordeals
From Tribal Rites to Secret Cults
Individual Initiations and Secret Societies
Heroic and Shamanic Initiations
Patterns of Initiation in Higher Religions
Notes
Index