The Man and the Sacred: A Thematic Source Book of the History of Religions (Part 2 of From Primitives to Zen)

xiii, 173 pp. The second part of From Primitives to Zen, this volume illustrates the varied and recurrent aspects of the life of religious man. Ancient rituals and sacrifices, oracles and devotions, prayers and hymns reflect a mode of existence in which the world, time, and life itself is sacred and charged with meaning.