Creation of the Sacred

Creation of the Sacred
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1998-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780674175709

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Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.


Creation of the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Walter Burkert
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts
Creation of the Sacred
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Walter Burkert
Categories: Natural theology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Rian Thum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr—the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet—have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they
The Sacred History
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jonathan Black
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-04 - Publisher:

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From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect us The Sacred History is an account
The Creation of Sacred Literature
Language: en
Pages: 107
Authors: Richard Elliott Friedman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-29 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

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"The study of the Bible is at a vital juncture." Thus begins this merger of a stellar group of scholars of both literary and historical perspectives on the Hebr