Religion and Power: No Logos without Mythos
- ISBN-10
- 1472433599
- ISBN-13
- 9781472433596
- Series
- Religion and Power
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-28
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Author
- Professor David Martin
Description
In this book David Martin argues, against Juergen Habermas, that religion and politics share a common mythic basis and that it is misleading to contrast the rationality of politics with the irrationality of religion. In contrast to Richard Dawkins (and New Atheists generally), Martin argues that the approach taken is brazenly unscientific and that the proclivity to violence is a shared feature of religion, nationalism and political ideology alike rooted in the demands of power and social solidarity.
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Other editions
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- 2008
- 271 pages
- Paperback
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
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