Rites and Symbols of Initiation by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask

Rites and Symbols of Initiation

Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask

175 pages • first pub 1958 (view editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology religion informative reflective slow-paced
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Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled...

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