Eliade, Mircea,  1907-1986. <br/><br/>
A history of religious ideas / 
Mircea Eliade 
 - Chicago, IL :  University of Chicago Press,  1978-1985 
 - 3v. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes 
<br/><br/>VOL. 1. From the stone age to the Eleusinian mysteries / translated by Willard R. Trask --  VOL. 2. From Gautama Buddha to the triumph of Christianity / translated by Willard R. Trask. 16. The religions of ancient China -- 17. Brahamanism and Hinduism: the first philosophies and techniques of salvation -- 18. The Buddha and his contemporaries -- 19. The message of the Buddha: from the terror of the eternal return to the bliss of the inexpressible -- 20. Roman religion: from its origins to the prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186) -- 21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae -- 22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the new eschatology -- 23. The history of Buddhism from Mahākāśyapa to Nāgārjuna. Jainism after Mahāvīra -- 24. The Hindu synthesis: the Mahābhārata and the Bhagavad Gītā -- 25. The ordeals of Judaism: from apocalypse to exaltation of the Torah -- 26. Syncretism and creativity in the Hellenistic period: the promise of salvation -- 27. New Iranian syntheses -- 28. The birth of Christianity -- 29. Paganism, Christianity, and gnosis in the Imperial period -- 30. The twilight of the gods --  VOL. 3. From Muhammad to the age of reforms / translated by Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translation of: Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226204006 (v.1 hbk.) 0226204014 (v.1 pbk.) 0226204022 (v.2 hbk.) 0226204030 (v.2 pbk.) 0226204049 (v.3 hbk.) 0226204057 (v.3 pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>77016784 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion--History.<br/>Religions--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>200.9