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L'esperienza di Dio nei primitivi: : saggi di etnologia religiosa
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ISBN: 8837211678 9788837211677 Year: 1983 Volume: 17 Publisher: Brescia: Morcelliana,

The religious imagination and the sense of God
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ISBN: 0198266464 0191683043 1280810343 9786610810345 9780198266464 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon,


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Eva, Mutter alles Lebendigen : Frauen und Göttinnenidole aus dem Alten Orient.
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ISBN: 3727814608 Year: 2006 Publisher: Fribourg Academic Press


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Les chemins du sacré dans l'histoire
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ISBN: 270070391X 9782700703917 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris Aubier Montaigne

Desirable God ? Our fascination with images, idols, and new deities
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ISBN: 9042913169 9789042913165 Year: 2003 Volume: 19 Publisher: Leuven: Peeters,

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The human fascination with images, and the idolatry or idolization of images as the source of desire, passion and terror, is treated in this book. The first part enters more deeply into religious idolatry, past and present. It treats the biblical, the early-Jewish as well as the Christian views on monotheism and the prohibition against images, as source of authentic humanism or as source of intolerance and violence. In the second part, the focus shifts onto a number of contemporary, profane idols and gods: the nationalist fascination for one's own land and people, and the fear or hate towards foreigners; the rampant preoccupation with (genetic) health, in a context of body culture and aestheticization, of which the postmodern sport idols have become the great 'icons'; the current image- and screen-culture and all forms of audiovisual exorcisms; and last but not least the ongoing process of economization and globalization, with an expanding culture of 'branding' logos.

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