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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joas, Hans, 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Other Authors: Skinner, Alex (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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