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Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual

Name: Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual
Price: 29.75 GBP
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Author: Stivers Richard Stivers
ISBN: 9781532686245

by Stivers Richard Stivers

Hardback
204 pages
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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For students of sociology and cultural faith.

Explains how modern society creates the sacred.

Helps you spot how symbols influence your views.

An insightful look at how modern societies shape our understanding of evil through myth and ritual.

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Richard Stivers' concern is with the social construction of evil, that is, with how modern societies, in a partly unconscious way, create evil as a category of the sacred and how symbols, myths, and rituals of evil are related to this. He is interested, moreover, in how modern societies provoke individuals to commit evil actions. This fascinating and stimulating book is the first attempt to work out in detail how the concepts of the sacred, symbol, myth, and ritual form a cultural configuration in modern technological societies, and not just in traditional societies.