Politics and the Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and the Sacred write by Harald Wydra. This book was released on 2015-04-30. Politics and the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that practices of the sacred have shaped the frames of modern secular politics.
Twin Powers
Twin Powers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twin Powers write by Thomas Steven Molnar. This book was released on 1988. Twin Powers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Politics and the Sacred
Politics and the Sacred - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and the Sacred write by Harald Wydra. This book was released on 2015-04-30. Politics and the Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 cultural fact, the sacred emerges within, and simultaneously transcends, transgressive dynamics such as revolutions, wars or globalisation. Rather than conceive the sacred as a religious doctrine or a metaphysical belief, Wydra examines its adaptive functions as origins, truths and order which are historically contingent across time and transformative of political aspirations. He suggests that the brokenness of political reality is a permanent condition of humanity, which will continue to produce quests for the sacred, and transcendental political frames. Working in the spirit of the genealogical mode of enquiry, this book examines the secular sources of political theologies, the democratic sacred, the communist imagination, European political identity, the sources of human rights and the relationship of victimhood to new wars.
Sacred and Secular
Sacred and Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred and Secular write by Pippa Norris. This book was released on 2011-10-17. Sacred and Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations.
The Languages of Religion
The Languages of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages of Religion write by Sipra Mukherjee. This book was released on 2018-06-14. The Languages of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by ‘faith-insiders’ such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator’s role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the ‘sacred’ language with political power. The book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.
