A review by shanviolinlove
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask

2.0

Excellent anthropological analysis, but I would rate Eliade as a first-rate historian before approaching philosophy of religion. He conducts an analysis of the religious man based primarily of his views of a primordial worshipper and does not fully take into account how Christianity differs in terms of goals: the Christian man's goal is not necessarily to become the Center and return to the origin, although he does nod to the fact that the sacred time for Christianity is influenced more on the life of Jesus Christ than on the creation of the world. Eliade supports an argument that man cannot attain this sacred understanding if he continues along this line of "progress" that ever travels away from the Origin. He does not, however, provide any solution for the generation that moves away from the primitive into the future.