TY - BOOK AU - Eliade,Mircea AU - Kitagawa,Joseph Mitsuo TI - The history of religions: essays in methodology SN - 0226203948 AV - BL41 .E5 U1 - ARCH YNDC 290 E42H PY - 1959///] CY - [Chicago] PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Religion KW - Study and teaching N1 - Bibliographical footnotes; The history of religions in America / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- Comparative religion : whither, and why? / Wilfred Cantwell Smith -- The supreme being : phenomenological structure and historical development / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Phenomenology of religions and philosophy of religion / Jean DaniƩlou -- Methodological remarks on the study of religious symbolism / Mircea Eliade -- The notion of "real elite" in sociology and in history / Louis Massignon -- On understanding non-Christian religions / Ernest Benz -- The history of religions as a preparation for the co-operation of religions N2 - The study of the history of religions appears to be at a critical point in its development. This is true of the discipline both in the East and in the West ER -