What to Read After The sacred and the profane
Readers who loved The sacred and the profane by Mircea Eliade keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The sacred and the profane is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The sacred and the profane
The Power of Myth
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The elementary forms of the religious life
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Sacred Canopy
Myth and meaning
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The ritual process
Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization
Morphology of the folktale
A history of religious ideas
The World's Religions
The illustrated world's religions
Images and Symbols
Myth and reality
Seven theories of religion
Greek Religion
Ecstasies
Theory of Religion
The meaning and end of religion
The Golden Bough
The perennial philosophy
The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)
Man and His Symbols