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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44988849*spi |
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.
