The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190933272ISBN-10:190933275UPC:9780190933272Book Category:Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, SociologySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCJJPCDN48
The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the
history of religion? In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a new sociological...
history of religion? In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a new sociological...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190933272ISBN-10:190933275UPC:9780190933272Book Category:Social Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, SociologySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCJJPCDN48
Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Some of his other books in English include G.H. Mead, A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought, Pragmatism and Social Theory, The Creativity of Action, The Genesis of Values, War and Modernity, The...
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