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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Heretics (Durham, England)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The idea of the sacred; 2. The transient sacred; 3. Nation and humanity: sacred forms in the modern age; 4. The sacred and religion; 5. Cultivating the sacred; Further reading; Bibliography; Index.