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Unit number: RIS
410
Unit title: Religious
Ideas: From the Stone Age to Eleusis
Credit value: 4 credits
Description: This is the first unit in a three-unit series exploring the landmark scholarship of Professor Mircea Eliade as expressed in his global, three-volume opus, “A History of Religious Ideas.” This unit examines prehistoric religious art and symbolism; Neolithic religions; Mesopotamian religions; Religious ideas of Ancient Egypt; Megaliths and ceremonial centres; Hittite and Canaanite religion; the ancient Israelites; Vedic religion before Buddhism; Zeus and the Greek gods; the Eleusinian mysteries; Zarathustra and Mazdaism; The Kings and Prophets of ancient Israel; and the rites of Dionysus.
Key textbook: Eliade, Mircea. A History of Religious Ideas Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978 and London: Collins, 1979.
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