To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Eliade used the concepts from The Idea of the Holy as the starting point for his own 1957 book The Sacred and the Profane. Otto was one of the very few modern theologians to whom C. Others to acknowledge Otto were for instance Martin Heidegger Leo Strauss John A.