In "The Quest" Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that what he calls a new humanism "will be engendered by a confrontation of modern Western man with unknown or less familiar worlds of meaning." "Each of these essays contains insights which will be fruitful and challenging for professional students of religion, but at the same time they all retain the kind of cultural relevance and clarity of style which makes them accessible to anyone seriously concerned with man and his religious possibilities." Joseph M. Kitagawa, "Religious Education""
- ISBN10 0226203972
- ISBN13 9780226203973
- Publish Date 28 May 1984 (first published 15 May 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 March 1994
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 180
- Language English