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On the Sacred /
Progressive, modern societies hold the promise of the triumph of reason and the banishing of primitive, religious impulses to a bygone age. If this statement is orthodoxy to much of Western liberal thought, then Gordon Lynch''s On the Sacred is heresy. Challenging the myth of the idealized...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Heretics (Durham, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Progressive, modern societies hold the promise of the triumph of reason and the banishing of primitive, religious impulses to a bygone age. If this statement is orthodoxy to much of Western liberal thought, then Gordon Lynch''s On the Sacred is heresy. Challenging the myth of the idealized rational society, Lynch argues that emotionally-charged forms of the sacred remain an inevitable foundation of social life. Modernity has not rid us of the sacred, but merely presented us with new sacred forms focused around humanity, nature and the nation. Drawing on examples from the changing status of the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 176 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317547358 1317547357 9781317547341 1317547349 9781315729916 1315729911 9781317547334 1317547330 9781138159068 1138159069 |