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

""Disenchantment" is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly do we mean when we use this concept? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present sta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Joas, Hans, 1948- (-)
Otros Autores: Skinner, Alex, traductor (traductor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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