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Routledge
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Routledge
184 Pages
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Routledge
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Progressive, modern societies hold the promise of the triumph of reason and the banishing of primitive, religious impulses to a bygone age. If this statement is orthodoxy to much of Western liberal thought, then Gordon Lynch's On the Sacred is heresy. Challenging the myth of the idealized rational society, Lynch argues that emotionally-charged forms of the sacred remain an inevitable foundation of... Read more
Introduction 1. The Idea of the Sacred 2. The Transient Sacred 3. The Modern Sacred 4. The Sacred and Religion 5. Cultivating the Sacred Further Reading Bibliography
Biography
Gordon Lynch is Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Kent.
