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At its basis was a view of the cosmos as an ordered expression of certain primordial essences or transcendent first principles, variously conceived as Forms, Ideas, universals, changeless absolutes, immortal deities, divine archai, and archetypes.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
Formerly the law was a religious decision; it passed for a revelation made by the gods to the ancestors, to the divine founder, to the sacred kings, to the magistrate-priests. In the new code, on the contrary, the legislator no longer speaks in the name of the gods. The decemvirs of Rome receive their powers from the people. The people also investe
... See moreNuma Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
A private world of women, guarding their sanctuary. Nuns in sackcloth living in huts near a riverbank. That’s what it reminds him of.
Thomas D. Lee • Perilous Times
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Working with the Abrahamic religions, Ricoeur identifies faith, hope and the sacred as a primordial complex identified with ‘manifest communities’ founded on numinous and preverbal experiences of the sacred in nature before they become book-centered, interpretive, intratribal and iconoclastic ‘proclamation communities’.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
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Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
The native British goddess Sulis, equated by Romans with their Minerva, was a popular cult figure whose steamy, healing hot springs prompted them for both offerings – coins and small gifts in great profusion – and supplications, like that of the outraged glove theft victim of Uley whose surviving plaque heads this chapter. No fewer than 130 message
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