From the introduction:
The instigation for this anthology of religious texts came during my first years of teaching History of Religions at the University of Chicago… It seems to me that only by reading a certain number of religious texts related to the same subject (cosmogony, initiation, myths on the origin of death, etc.) is a student able to grasp their structural similarities and their differences. (Mircea Eliade)
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