How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about
themselves and their world from being in force, how does this
propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized
and criticized throughout the ages? Through a diversity of discrete
case-studies spanning a vast time-scale (including topics such as
paleolithic personal ornaments, pre-ancient ritual economy, ancient
philosophy, and modern artful science), this study explores the
means by which humans voluntarily suspend habitual patterns of
judgement and disbelief in order to perceive the world differently.
In recognizing how such modes of suspension can be variously traced
back to religious comportments and institutions, a new sense of
religious participation is identified beyond the credulous
subjunction to artifice and its critical dismissal. The relevant
outcome of this long-term comparative approach is that sincere
devotion to a (practical or theoretical, scientific or spiritual)
cause and the temporary affirmation of artifice are not mutually
exclusive comportments, but rather genealogically akin to the
discretely sacred (alchemical, ataraxic, epistemological,
spectacular, thaumaturgic, etc.) concerns of a pre-modern world.
General
| Imprint: |
De Gruyter
|
| Country of origin: |
Germany |
| Series: |
Religion and Reason |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Peter Jackson Rova
|
| Dimensions: |
230 x 155mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-3-11-045874-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
3-11-045874-8 |
| Barcode: |
9783110458749 |
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