Politics and the sacred /

"This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wydra, Harald (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Religion and politics.
Religion et politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Politik
Das Heilige
Religion
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the sacred and the political 1
  • The extraordinary and the political imagination 2
  • The politics of transcendence 3
  • Secular sources of political theologies 4
  • Democracy and the sacred 5
  • The power of symbols: communism and beyond 6
  • Generations of European imaginations 7
  • The spell of humanity 8
  • Victims and new wars Epilogue: rationalities of the sacred.

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