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Living with the Gods

- On Beliefs and Peoples
Af: Dr Neil MacGregor Engelsk Hardback

Living with the Gods

- On Beliefs and Peoples
Af: Dr Neil MacGregor Engelsk Hardback
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A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition.

One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious.

Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are.

For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other.

''The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor ... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back ... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society'' Sunday Times

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A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition.

One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious.

Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are.

For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other.

''The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor ... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back ... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society'' Sunday Times

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 512
ISBN-13: 9780241308295
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0241308291
Kategori: Religionshistorie
Udg. Dato: 17 sep 2018
Længde: 44mm
Bredde: 239mm
Højde: 164mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 17 sep 2018
Forfatter(e): Dr Neil MacGregor
Forfatter(e) Dr Neil MacGregor

Kategori Religionshistorie

ISBN-13 9780241308295

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 512

Udgave

Længde 44mm

Bredde 239mm

Højde 164mm

Udg. Dato 17 sep 2018

Oplagsdato 17 sep 2018

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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