In Between: The Holy Beyond Modern Dichotomies

by Espen Dahl

Thanks to the recent return to religion, the holy has become a relevant issue in public debate, as is suggested by concepts such as re-sacralization and re-enchantment. Holy war and religiously motivated terrorist attacks, the fascination in popular culture for subjects such as the Holy Grail (as in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code), and new spiritual longings both within and outside institutional religion, all testify to the new religious climate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3525604416
• ISBN13: 9783525604410
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 163 Pages