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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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2017]
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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
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| RelBib 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 |
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