[PDF] The Sacred And The Profane eBook

Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780156792011

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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.

Author : Raymond Aaron Younis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 149857369X

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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.

Author : William Arnal
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199757119

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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.

Author : Anne Warfield Rawls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139441322

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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.

Author : Carol Crown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781578069163

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A sustained critical assessment of southern folk art and self-taught art and artists

Author : Faye Kellerman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061827894

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Available for the first time in a Premium edition, one of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Faye Kellerman’s fan-favorite Decker/Lazurus novels.

Author : Andrew Graham-Dixon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393082938

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year "This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and mysterious death at age thirty-eight. Featuring more than eighty full-color reproductions of the artist’s best paintings, Caravaggio is a masterful profile of the mercurial painter.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1984-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101494255

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Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators at any rate—a morality play, rich in reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.

Author : Jake Kinzey
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1780990359

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The Sacred and the Profane is a work that combines local and global analysis to examine our age's often-talked about, but mostly misunderstood, 'mainstream subculture': the hipster. This book seeks to answer questions like, 'Why don't hipsters want to be called hipsters?' and 'Why do they act like they are different when they are just like all the other hipsters?' If you can't stand hipsters, are a hipster, or don't know what a hipster is, this book is for you. ,

Author : Gabriele Paleotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 160606116X

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In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Paleotti's 'Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images' argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators.