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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Jacob Grimm, Joseph Campbell, James Lovelock, Thomas Bulfinch, Mircea Eliade, Roland Barthes, Erich von Daniken, Georges Dumezil, Rene Girard, Claude Levi-Strauss, Immanuel Velikovsky, William Irwin Thompson, Karoly Kerenyi, Alan F. Alford, Ella Young, August von Haxthausen, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Edith Hamilton, Antoine Banier, Lewis Spence, Natalis Comes, A. G. van Hamel, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Karl Otfried Muller, Devdutt Pattanaik, Just Mathias Thiele, Thomas Blackwell, Andrei Oişteanu, Jan de Vries, Jean Seznec, Keith Critchlow, Robert Lawlor, Jonathan Young, Paul Devereux, Carl A. P. Ruck, Andrew Calimach, Fyodor Buslaev, Olga Frobe-Kapteyn, John Lamb Lash, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Claude Calame, Abram Smythe Palmer, Theodontius, Daniel Clasen, Vincenzo Cartari, Digby Mythographer, Fyodor Braun, Thomas Inman, Jaan Puhvel, Thomas Keightley, Otto Gruppe, Paul of Perugia. Excerpt: Mircea Eliade (Romanian pronunciation: March 13 1907 - April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them. His literary works belong to the fantasy and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sanziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel...
