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20206960 No.20206960 [Reply] [Original]

>Consciousness of this unity of the spiritual history of humanity is a recent discovery, which has not yet been sufficiently assimilated. Its importance for the future of our discipline will become manifest in the last chapter of the third volume. It is also in this final chapter, in the course of a discussion of the crises brought on by the masters of reductionism-from Marx and Nietzsche to Freud-and of the contributions made by anthropology, the history of religions, phenomenology, and the new hermeneutics, that the reader will be able to judge the sole, but important, religious creation of the modern Western world. I refer to the ultimate stage of desacralization. The process is of considerable interest to the historian of religions, for it illustrates the complete camouflage of the "sacred "-more precisely, its identification with the "profane."
I'm new to Eliade. Aside from the last chapter he talks about above, is there any other book where he focuses on this last stage of desacralization in the modern West?

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Bump for curiosity

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>>20206960
Which books is this from?

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>>20206960
Sacred and Profane - Eliade