History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 : From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity

Mircea Eliade; Willard R Trask
University of Chicago Press
9780226204031
0-226-20403-0

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries,.

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Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity--all are encompassed in this volume.