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Origins of the Sacred : The Ecstasies of Love and War

by: Young, D.

Price: 39,00 EURO

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 26688
ISBN-13: 9780312064327 / 978-0-312-06432-7
ISBN-10: 0312064322 / 0-312-06432-2
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 1991
Publication Place: New York
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 378
Book Condition: New

 Origins of the sacred : the ecstasies of love and war

Author:Dudley Young

Summary:Explores the relationship of sex and violence in human evolution and in the human brain, and how the emergence of religion, law, and civilization were related to these basic human instincts

Contents:
pt. I. Origins of the sacred: the evolution of man in nature : Perceiving the world: science versus mythology ; In the beginning: from monkey to man on the African savannah ; Male versus female: the Paleolithic beginnings of love and war ; On the dancing ground: divinity discovered and innocence lost
pt. II. Illuminations of the sacred: the lawlines of culture : Dangereous ectasies: the call to ritual drama: Hunting, War and cannibalism, Beauty, Erotic love ; Thinking in the theater of the gods: the magic of metamorphosis: Shaman, his mask and his drum, Language and the magic of representation, Pollution and chaos, Sacred swarms, Trickster and Hermes: the give and take of things that change ; Acting in the theater of the gods: the mysteries of sacrificial violence: Housing the sacred, Sacrifice: the mutilating ecstasy, The scapegoat, Dionysius and the origins of tragedy, The lamentations of Isis/Osiris
pt. III. Occlusions of the sacred: moving from myth into history : The ecstatsies of love and war: Genesis 3: Adam and Eve (love), Genesis 4: Cain and Abel (war), The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer: Odysseus at the cave of Polyphemos, Finale: Poseidon and the Cretan sea-bull
Appendix: Etymologies of the sacred in the ancient world


Subjects:
Evolution
Gefühl
Genetic psychology
History
Holy, The
Homme Évolution
Human evolution
Mythes
Mythologie
Myths
Psychologie génétique
Religion
Sacré
Sex
Sex History
Sexualité Histoire
Violence
Violence Histoire
Violence History
religion (discipline)
 
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Origins of the Sacred : The Ecstasies of Love and War

by: Young, D.

  • ISBN-13: 9780312064327 / 978-0-312-06432-7
  • ISBN-03: 0312064322 / 0-312-06432-2
  • St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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