The mark of the sacred / / Jean-Pierre Dupuy ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise.

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Place / Publishing House:Stanford, California : : Stanford University Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
French
Series:Cultural memory in the present
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Physical Description:1 online resource (239 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:"Originally published in French under the title La marque du sacre."
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.