The Myth of the Eternal Return

Eliade’s career was long and prolific. He wrote an extraordinarily large number of books and essays on diverse topics in the history of religion and spirituality. He also wrote a number of novels and autobiographical texts. These are too numerous to list in full. Below is an abbreviated list of the most renowned and influential titles, including The Myth of Eternal Return (the work he believed his most important) and the three-volume A History of Religious Ideas, his magnum opus. Patterns in Comparative Religion is frequently cited in The Myth of Eternal Return.

A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries translated by Willard R. Trask (1981)

A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity translated by Willard R. Trask (1985)

A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms translated by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Alf Hiltebeitel (1988)

Bengal Nights translated by Catherin Spencer (1995)

The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy translated by Stephen Corrin (1979)

Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism translated by Philip Mairet (2021)

Occultism, Witchcraft and Cultural Fashions: Essays in Comparative Religions (1978)

Patterns in Comparative Religion translated by Rosemary Sheed and John Clifford Holt (1996)