About the Author

Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other books, Shamanism, Images and Symbols, and Yoga (all Princeton).

Reviews

A luminous, profound, and extremely stimulating work... This is an essay which anyone interested in the history of religion and the mentality of ancient man will have to read. Review of Religion Profound and pregnant research in the psychology of time and the intuitive forms of the mind as revealed by the early cultures' attitude toward history. Nation