TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynch,Gordon
TI  - On the Sacred
T2  - Heretics
SN  - 9781317547358
AV  - BL60 .L955 2014 
U1  - 301.58 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Das Heilige
KW  - Moderne
KW  - Zivilreligion
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The idea of the sacred; 2. The transient sacred; 3. Nation and humanity: sacred forms in the modern age; 4. The sacred and religion; 5. Cultivating the sacred; Further reading; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Progressive, modern societies hold the promise of the triumph of reason and the banishing of primitive, religious impulses to a bygone age. If this statement is orthodoxy to much of Western liberal thought, then Gordon Lynch''s On the Sacred is heresy. Challenging the myth of the idealized rational society, Lynch argues that emotionally-charged forms of the sacred remain an inevitable foundation of social life. Modernity has not rid us of the sacred, but merely presented us with new sacred forms focused around humanity, nature and the nation. Drawing on examples from the changing status of the
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