Research Catalog

Title

Australian religions: an introduction.

Author

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.

Publication

Ithaca, Cornell University Press [1973]

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Details

Description

xxi, 205 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Critique of the literature on and an examination of Australian Aboriginal ritual and belief focussing on meaning rather than function; supernatural beings, high gods, culture heroes; mythical geography; initiation rites; secret cults; medicine men; death and eschatology; First published in Hist. Relig.

Series Statement

Symbol, myth, and ritual series

Uniform Title

Symbol, myth, and ritual series.

Subject

• Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
• Ceremonies > Initiation
• Health > Treatments > Traditional > Clever people
• Stories and motifs > Creation > Cosmology
• Stories and motifs > Cultural heroes
• Indigenous knowledge > World view
• Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
• Religion
• Godsdiensten
• Aborigines
• Aranda (volk)
• Aboriginal Australians > Religion
• Iwi taketake
• Australia > Religion
• Australia
• Australia
• Australia > Folklore
• Australia > Religion and religious life
• Australien

Note

• Based on a course delivered by the author at the University of Chicago, 1964. The pref. first appeared in 1967 as On understanding primitive religions, in Glaube und Geschichte, Festschrift für Ernst Benz; the remainder of the book is reprinted from History of religions, v. 6-7 (1966-67)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Supernatural beings and high gods -- 2. Culture heroes and mythical geography -- 3. Initiation rites and secret cults -- 4. The medicine men and their supernatural models -- 5. Death and eschatology: conclusions.

ISBN

• 080140729X
• 9780801407291

LCCN

72006473

OCLC

• ocm00524051
• 524051
• SCSB-215725

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library