This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - such as Tylor, Lang, Robertson-Smith and Frazer - through the American psychologists of religion - such as Starbuck, Leuba, William Ja...(展开全部)

This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - such as Tylor, Lang, Robertson-Smith and Frazer - through the American psychologists of religion - such as Starbuck, Leuba, William Ja...(展开全部)

"An important and quite beautiful book". ("Library Journal"). "[Eliade] throws a searching and humbling light on our modern fragmented existence". ([London] "Times Literary Supplement"). "Treatment of such subjects as the meaning of the sacred, sun and moon worship, water symbolism, sacred stones, fertility cults, the earth mother, symbols of regeneration and the myth of eterna...(展开全部)

李安宅(1900-1985年)，河北省迁安县人。字仁斋,笔名任责。著名社会学、人类学、民族学家。曾任四川省政协委员,中国社会学研究会顾问、中国民族学会顾问、中国民俗学研究会顾问等。1926年燕京大学社会学系毕业,后赴美国深造。1938年赴甘肃拉卜楞寺对藏传佛教进行实地调查,后任教于成都华西大学。1947年到1949年在美英从事研究工作。1950年进藏任教。1963年任教于四川师范学院。1985年逝世。一生专治民族学、宗教学、社会学、藏学的研究,颇有成绩。宗教方面的专著有《藏族宗教史之实地研究》、《拉卜楞――李安宅的调查报告》、《宗教与边疆建设》等。

李安宅(1900-1985年)，河北省迁安县人。字仁斋,笔名任责。著名社会学、人类学、民族学家。曾任四川省政协委员,中国社会学研究会顾问、中国民族学会顾问、中国民俗学研究会顾问等。1926年燕京大学社会学系毕业,后赴美国深造。1938年赴甘肃拉卜楞寺对藏传佛教进行实地调查,后任教于成都华西大学。1947年到1949年在美英从事研究工作。1950年进藏任教。1963年任教于四川师范学院。1985年逝世。一生专治民族学、宗教学、社会学、藏学的研究,颇有成绩。宗教方面的专著有《藏族宗教史之实地研究》、《拉卜楞――李安宅的调查报告》、《宗教与边疆建设》等。

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler...(展开全部)

This book is offers a broad, comparative survey of a booming field within the history of science: the history, generation, use, and function of images in scientific practice. It explores every aspect of visuality in science, arguing for the concept of visual domains. What makes a good scientific image? What cultural baggage is essential to it? Is science indeed defined by its p...(展开全部)

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler...(展开全部)