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Revival: The Return of the Primitive (2001) - A New Sociological Theory of Religion (Hardcover)
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Revival: The Return of the Primitive (2001) - A New Sociological Theory of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2001. This work presents a
sociological theory of religion. Richard K. Fenn demonstrates that
the shape of the sacred depends on what aspects of the psyche and
of the environment seem to be beyond the pale of the human and the
social, that is, the primitive. Whatever is anti-social or
subhuman, and whatever subverts the reign of convention, or
whatever defies notions of reason, represents the primitive.
Indeed, the primitive represents the range of possibilities that
excluded us from any society or social system. That is why hell is
so often populated by those who are partly bestial, or crooked and
corrupting. If there is to be a renewal of Christian thinking and
aspiration in our time, it has to come from a rediscovery of the
dream: not only in the metaphorical sense of a vision, perhaps of
racial equality, but in the quite literal sense of the individual's
own reservoir of suppressed and unconscious memories and yearnings,
magical thinking and wounded or grandiose self-imagery.
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