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Birth and Rebirth: The Religious Meanings of Initiation in Human Culture

Eliade's comparative study reading initiation cross-culturally as a ritual repetition of cosmogonic patterns of symbolic death and rebirth. Reissued as Rites and Symbols of Initiation.

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Author
Mircea Eliade
Type
Book
Written
1958
Edition
1958
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Language
English
Tradition
Comparative
Identifiers
OCLC6807770

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