The Sacred and the Profane - 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 Sacred and the Profane write by Mircea Eliade. This book was released on 1959. The Sacred and the Profane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.
On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane)
On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane) - 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 On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane) write by Raymond Aaron Younis. This book was released on 2020-11-17. On the Ontology of the Sacred (and the Profane) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), in relation to some of the diverse religions of the world and the rich and multifarious traditions of the sacred in many cultures and times, in the context of ontology (broadly, the philosophical study or investigation of being). It provides incisive critical analyses and evaluations of many important contributions to our understanding of the sacred, and the holy, especially in relation to the world's religions, religious experience, religious insight or knowledge, metaphysics, mythology and mysticism. A number of important theories and explanations are also critically analyzed and evaluated, including the numinous theory of the sacred and the holy (Otto), the psychodynamic theory (Freud), the sociological theory (Durkheim), empirical theories (Russell and Ayer), the ontological question (Heidegger) and the hierophantic theory (Eliade)—among others. The book concludes with a number of reflections on the ontology of the sacred (and the profane) in relation to philosophy and science, that will open up new pathways of thinking, reflection and investigation in the 21st century.
The Sacred Is the Profane
The Sacred Is the Profane - 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 Sacred Is the Profane write by William Arnal. This book was released on 2013. The Sacred Is the Profane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sacred is the Profane collects nine essays by William Arnal and Russell McCutcheon that advance current scholarly debates on secularism-debates. The essays return, again and again, to the question of what "religion"—word and concept—accomplishes, now, for those who employ it, whether at the popular, political, or scholarly level. The focus here is on the efficacy, costs, and the tactical work carried out by dividing the world between religious and political, church and state, sacred and profane.
Epistemology and Practice
Epistemology and Practice - 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 Epistemology and Practice write by Anne Warfield Rawls. This book was released on 2005-03-03. Epistemology and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought. Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.
Sacred and Profane
Sacred and Profane - 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 Profane write by Carol Crown. This book was released on 2007. Sacred and Profane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists
