Book
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.
Where to find it
- WorldCat: Rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth (Eliade, trans. Trask)
- Open Library: Rites and symbols of initiation by Mircea Eliade
- Internet Archive (borrow): Rites and symbols of initiation: the mysteries of birth and rebirth, Eliade 1907-1986
- Google Books: Rites and Symbols of Initiation (Eliade, trans. Willard Ropes Trask)