Before Religion
A History Of A Modern Concept
- Editore:
Yale University Press
- EAN:
9780300216783
- ISBN:
0300216785
- Pagine:
- 288
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Before Religion
For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and geographically, but there is an element, religion, that is to be found in all cultures during all time periods. Taking apart this assumption, Brent Nongbri shows that the idea of religion as a sphere of life distinct from politics, economics, or science is a recent development in European history--a development that has been projected outward in space and backward in time with the result that religion now appears to be a natural and necessary part of our world.
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