This Volume completes the immensely learned three-Volume A History of Religious Ideas .
In addition to reviewing recent interpretations of the individual tra.
Eliade\'s vast knowledge of past and present scholarship provides a synthesis that is unparalleled.
Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of Islam From approximately the sixth through the seventeenth centuries.
This Volume completes the immensely learned three-Volume A History of Religious Ideas