15 volumes : 29 cm

This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. It emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture

Revised edition of: The Encyclopedia of religion / [editor in chief, Mircea Eliade ; editors, Charles J. Adams and others]. c1987

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. 1. Aaron -- Attention -- v. 2. Attributes of God -- Butler, Joseph -- v. 3. Cabasilas, Nicholas -- Cyrus II -- v. 4. Dacian rides -- Esther -- v. 5. Eternity -- God -- v. 6. Goddess worship -- Iconoclasm -- v. 7. Iconography -- Justin martyr -- v. 8. Ka'bah -- Marx, Karl -- v. 9. Mary -- Ndembu religion -- v. 10. Necromancy -- Pindar -- v. 11. Pius IX -- Rivers -- v. 12. Rnying ma pa school -- Soul -- v. 13. South American Indian religions -- Transcendence and immanence -- v. 14. Transcendental meditation -- Zwingli, Huldrych -- v. 15. Appendix ; Synoptic outline ; Index

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