RT Article
T1 The political sacred and the holiness of life itself
JF Religion
VO 47
IS 4
SP 688
OP 703
A1 Flood, Gavin 1954-
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1639927328
AB 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 biological reductionism that seeks to locate the sacred within the common, biological nature of human life itself, the other an abductive argument for human transformation in terms of what Sloterdjik has called ‘vertical tension.’ This argument turns out to be one for locating holiness in the very notion of life itself that I wish to ground in the idea of social cognition.
K1 Agamben
K1 Holiness
K1 Profane
K1 Sacred
K1 Social cognition
DO 10.1080/0048721X.2017.1362727