Essential writtings on Religion

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Religion as a Chain of Memory

Religion as a Chain of Memory

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Author : Hervieu-Leger, Daniele
Edition : Rutgers University Press
Price : 21,00 €

This book establishes Daniele Hervieu-Leger as one of the most important contemporary sociologists of religion. In the best tradition of French ...

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The Sacred And The Profane. The Nature Of The Religion.

The Sacred And The Profane. The Nature Of The Religion.

Author : Mircea Eliade
Edition : Harcourt
Price : 15,50 €

In  the classic Text The Sacred and The Profane, famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents ...

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The idea of the Holy

The idea of the Holy

Author : Rudolf Otto
Edition : Oxford University press
Price : 16,00 €

Before religion became "morality touched with emotion" it was the emotion itself, or a group of emotions, and it still is. Those emotion are, ...

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The Birth of God

The Birth of God

Author : Jean Bottero
Edition : The Pennsylvania State University Press

Jean Bottero is a famed historian in France of the Semitic religions of Antiquity.  The Birth of God addresses questions that "educated ...

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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

Author : Mauss, Marcel (Author), Halls, W D (Translator)
Edition : W. W. Norton & Company
Price : 13,95 €

The Gift is Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. A brilliant French sociologist and ...

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