Historian Of Religion

🇬🇧Karen Armstrong

Literature

b. 1944

"Articles by Karen Armstrong on the 5th Estate blog"

🇺🇸Joseph Campbell

Literature

1904–1987

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."

🇩🇪Max Müller

Religion

1823–1900

"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."

🇫🇷Émile_Durkheim

Science

1858–1917

"Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct."

Mircea Eliade

Literature

1907–1986

"The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence."

"The theory and practice of the Tantric mandala operates on a mesocosmic level , that is, on the level of a mediating template between protocosm and metacosm as well as between macrocosm and microcosm."