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Time, Religion and History (Hardcover)
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Time, Religion and History (Hardcover)
Series: History: Concepts,Theories and Practice
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What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the
world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers
these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian
Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the
significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that
time is natural and unchanging. This is of critical importance to
historians since the base matter of their study is time, yet there
is almost no theoretical literature on time in history. This book
offers the first detailed historiographical study of the centrality
of time to human cultures. It sets out the complex ways in which
ideas of time developed in the major world religions, and the
manner in which such conceptions led people both to live in ways
very different to our contemporary world and to make very different
kinds of histories. It goes on to argue that modern scientific
descriptions of time, such as Einsteins Theory of Relativity, lie
much closer to the complex understandings of time in religions such
as Christianity than they do to our common-sense notions of time
which are centred on progress through a past, present and future.
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