The disenchantment of the world : a political history of religion

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gauchet, Marcel 1938 - (συγγραφέας)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Burge, Oscar (Μεταφραστής, μεταφραστής), Taylor, Charles, 1931- (συγγραφέας εισαγωγής)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999, c1997.
• Έκδοση: [Pbk.]
• Θέματα: Θρησκεία; Θρησκεία και πολιτική

 "Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern West, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement away from religious society, beginning with prophetic Judaism, gaining tremendous momentum in Christianity, and eventually leading to the rise of the political state. Gauchet's view that monotheistic religion itself was a form of social revolution is rich with implications for readers in fields across the humanities and social sciences." 

 pt. 1. The Metamorphoses of the Divine: The Origin, Meaning, and Development of the Religious The Historicity of the Religious -- Ch. 1. Primeval Religion or the Reign of the Absolute Past -- Ch. 2. The State of Sacral Transforming Agent -- Ch. 3. The Dynamics of Transcendence -- Ch. 4. From Immersion in Nature of Transforming Nature -- pt. 2. The Apogee and Death of God: Christianity and Western Development -- Ch. 5. The Powers of the Divine Subject -- Ch. 6. Figures of the Human Subject.