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 horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of Max Weber; Emile Durkheim; and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with the work of René Girard; Dupuy shows that we must remember the world's sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A metaphysical and theological detective; he tracks the sacred in the very fields where human reason considers itself most free from everything it judges irrational: science; technology; economics; political and strategic thought. In making such claims; The Mark of the Sacred takes on religion bashers; secularists; and fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most versatile thinkers of our time; it militates for a world where reason is no longer an enemy of faith.
#800107 in Books Dorothy Ko 1995-01-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .96 x 6.04l; 1.22 #File Name: 0804723591395 pagesTeachers of the Inner Chambers Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century China
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Thorough and thoughtfulBy A CustomerWhen it was written; Ko's book was one of the first to reconsider previously accepted views about women's status in China. The traditional readings had been that women were deprived; subjugated; and prisoners in their culture. While not attempting to paint a revisionary too-bright picture of women's lives; Ko considers the factors of class and economic status in the study of women. Her observations about women's reading and interaction are especially insightful and fascinating reading.
