The Sacred and Profane -- Mircea Eliade, Paperback Religion - Youth Issues The rhythmic

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The sobering picture that emerges is that the interests of the people have only ever been advanced by a tightly organized minority

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The Sacred and Profane -- Mircea Eliade, Paperback Religion - Youth Issues The rhythmicA groundbreaking work on myth, symbol, and ritual by one of the most acclaimed historians of our time. In The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade observes that while contemporary people believe their world is entirely profane or secular, they still at times find themselves connected unconsciously to the memory of something sacred. It's this premise that both drives Eliade's exhaustive exploration of the sacred as it has manifested in space, time,