Living With The Gods: On Beliefs And Peoples

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Living With The Gods: On Beliefs And Peoples

Author : Neil MacGregor

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Highlights

English

Language

Living with the Gods

Edition

488

Pages

9780241308295

ISBN-13

0241308295

ISBN-10

Allen Lane

Publisher

240 mm

Height

160 mm

Width

46 mm

Thickness

Hardcover

Binding

Description

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.