Treatise on the History of Religions

This edition presents one of the most important works of Mircea Eliade, an outstanding historian of religion and culture. In it, the author, based on a large factual material and from the dialectic of the sacred and the profane, examines various aspects of archaic culture, ritual, and mythological thinking. Eliade's work, distinguished by its logical coherence and clarity of presentation, remains indispensable for historians, religious scholars, philosophers, cultural researchers, as well as anyone interested in the problems of cultural development.