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The Mark of the Sacred (Paperback)
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The Mark of the Sacred (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened
doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to
self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this
crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of
religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of
our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of
human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted
world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss
of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes
that loom on our horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of
Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with
the work of Rene Girard, Dupuy shows that we must remember the
world's sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A
metaphysical and theological detective, he tracks the sacred in the
very fields where human reason considers itself most free from
everything it judges irrational: science, technology, economics,
political and strategic thought. In making such claims, "The Mark
of the Sacred " takes on religion bashers, secularists, and
fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most
versatile thinkers of our time, it militates for a world where
reason is no longer an enemy of faith.
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