The power of the sacred : an alternative to the narrative of disenchantment

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The power of the sacred : an alternative to the narrative of disenchantment

by Hans Joas ; translated by Alex Skinner

Oxford University Press, c2021

  • : hbk

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Macht des Heiligen

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-378) and index

Contents of Works

  • History of Religion as Critique of Religion? David Hume and the Consequences
  • Religious Experience and the Theory of Signs
  • Ritual and the Sacred. On the Anthropology of Ideal Formation
  • Multiple Forms of Ideal Formation or Process of Disenchantment? Attempts at Synthesis by Ernst Troeltsch and Max Weber
  • Transcendence as Reflexive Sacredness. The 'Axial Age' as a Turning Point in Religious History
  • Fields of Tension. A New Interpretation of Max Weber's 'Intermediate Reflection'
  • The Sacred and Power. Collective Self-Sacralization and Ways of Overcoming it

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