Category: Religions
Format: Essay/Paperback
Dimension: 18 cms x 24,5 cms
Pages: 544
Price: 50 €
Year: 2018
Rights Sold: Croatian

Review

Written by jacabook

All religious experiences arise from the attempt of man to insert himself in the real and in the sacred, by means of fundamental physiological acts, which he transformes into ceremonies and rites. Eliade writes: “as the ritual always consists in the repetition of an archetypal gesture, accomplished in the illo tempore (at the beginning of the history) by the ancestors or the gods, the humans try to emphasize, through the hierophany, the most banal and insignificant acts”. The rite coincides, due to the repetition, with its archetype. By transforming all the physiological acts into ceremonies, the archaic man strives to "pass over", to project himself beyond time, into eternity. Through the symbols the world is revealed and through the myth and the rite the world “speaks” to men.

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