TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dupuy,Jean-Pierre
AU  - DeBevoise,M.B.
TI  - The mark of the sacred
T2  - Cultural memory in the present
SN  - 0804788456
AV  - BL60 .D8613 2013
U1  - 201/.7 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Catastrophical, The
KW  - Faith and reason
KW  - Holy, The
KW  - Sociologie religieuse
KW  - Catastrophe (Philosophie)
KW  - Foi et raison
KW  - Sacré
KW  - sociology of religion
KW  - aat
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Originally published in French under the title La marque du sacré."; Includes bibliographical references; Prologue : the form of the sacred -- Imagining the end : a personal journey -- Science : a theology in spite of itself -- Religion : natural vs. supernatural -- Rationality and ritual : the Babylon lottery -- Justice and resentment : corruption of the best -- The nuclear menace : a new sacrament for humanity -- Epilogue : variations on vertigo
N2  - Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls ""enlightened doomsaying, "" has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our ho
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