The secular world, stripped of sacred meaning, becomes a pla... - Mircea Eliade

"The secular world, stripped of sacred meaning, becomes a place of profound loneliness and anxiety."

Mircea Eliade Philosophy

Historian of Religion Romanian 1907–1986

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