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eternal return: a standalone construct

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eternalreturn1 CONSTRUCTEternal returnELIADE · RELIGIOUS STUDIES

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Religious studies

Eliade's account of archaic societies periodically abolishing time through ritual repetition of mythic archetypes, so that the world is renewed.

In religious studies, eternal return refers to Eliade's account of archaic societies periodically abolishing time through ritual repetition of mythic archetypes, so that the world is renewed. This meaning comes from Eliade (1949/1954) in The myth of the eternal return.[1]

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References

  1. Eliade, M. (1954). The myth of the eternal return (W. R. Trask, Trans.). Pantheon Books. (Original work published 1949) Open Library record

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