The political sacred and the holiness of life itself

This article reflects on Agamben’s formulation of the sacred within the political order of the West, contrasting this with the Durkheim/Bellah view of the sacred/profane opposition, and then presenting two arguments that reduction of the sacred to the political is insufficient, one a form of biologi...

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Main Author: Flood, Gavin 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2017]
In: Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 688-703
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Agamben, Giorgio 1942- / The Sacred / Political order / Holiness / Social psychology / Cognition
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
Further subjects:B Holiness
B Profane
B Agamben
B Sacred
B Social cognition
Online Access: Volltext (doi)

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