Sacralization and Desacralization: Political Domination and Religious Interpretation

In my writings on the history of human rights, the Axial Age, and the genesis of values, I have treated the experience of self-transcendence and the attribution of sacredness as a fundamental anthropological phenomenon. But this fundamental fact of ideal formation has a flip side: The sacralization...

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Main Author: Joas, Hans 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2016]
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 25-42
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CD Christianity and Culture
CG Christianity and Politics
NBE Anthropology
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