Living with the gods on beliefs and peoples 1st Edition by Neil Macgregor 0525521471 9780525521471

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Author: Neil Macgregor 

In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society. Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the nature of individual societies around the world seemed to be on the wane. Now, far from being marginalized, the relationship between faith and society has moved to the center of politics and global conversation. Neil MacGregor’s new book traces the ways in which different societies have understood and articulated their places in the cosmic scheme. It examines mankind’s beliefs not from the perspective of institutional religions but according to how shared narratives have shaped societies—and what happens when different narratives run up against each other. As he did in A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation, MacGregor brilliantly combines objects, places, and ideas to examine and, ultimately, illuminate these pressing contemporary concerns.

 Living with the gods on beliefs and peoples 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Our Place in the Pattern
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Belief
Chapter 2: Fire and State
Chapter 3: Water of Life and Death
Chapter 4: The Return of the Light
Chapter 5: Harvest and Homage
Part Two: Believing Together
Chapter 6: Living with the Dead
Chapter 7: Birth and the Body
Chapter 8: A Place in Tradition
Chapter 9: Let Us Pray
Chapter 10: The Power of Song
Part Three: Theatres of Faith
Chapter 11: The House of God
Chapter 12: Gifts to the Gods
Chapter 13: Holy Killing
Chapter 14: To Be a Pilgrim
Chapter 15: Festival Time
Part Four: The Power of Images
Chapter 16: The Protectoresses
Chapter 17: The Work of Art in Times of Spiritual Reproduction
Chapter 18: The Accretion of Meaning
Chapter 19: Change Your Life
Chapter 20: Rejecting the Image, Revering the Word
Part Five: One God or Many
Chapter 21: The Blessings of Many Gods
Chapter 22: The Power of One
Chapter 23: Spirits of Place
Chapter 24: If God Be with Us
Chapter 25: Tolerating and Not Tolerating
Part Six: Powers Earthly and Divine
Chapter 26: The Mandate of Heaven
Chapter 27: Thy Kingdom Come
Chapter 28: Turning the Screw
Chapter 29: ‘There Is No God!’
Chapter 30: Living with Each Other

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