The sacred is the profane the political nature of "religion"

"The Sacred is the Profane' collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates. The essays return, again and again, to the question of what 'religion"--Word and concept - accomplishes, now, for those who emplo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arnal, William E. ( 1967-) (-)
Otros Autores: McCutcheon, Russell T. (1961-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Castellano
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On the persistence of imagining religion
  • On the definition of religion
  • Words, words, wordbooks, or everything old is new again
  • Contemporary reinventions of religion: Disney and the Academy
  • Just follow the money: the Cold War, the humanistic study of religion, and the fallacy of insufficient cynicism
  • Will your cognitive anchor hold in the storms of culture?
  • Maps of nothing in particular: religion as a cross-cultural taxon?
  • They licked the platter clean: on the co-dependency of the religious and the secular
  • Origins of Christianity within, and without, religion an exploration and application