Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Autor Dr Neil MacGregoren Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2018
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241308295
ISBN-10: 0241308291
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 167 x 240 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241308291
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 167 x 240 x 44 mm
Greutate: 1.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Neil
MacGregorwas
Director
of
the
National
Gallery,
London
from
1987
to
2002
and
of
the
British
Museum
from
2002
to
2015,
and
Chair
of
the
Steering
Committee
of
the
Humboldt
Forum
in
Berlin
from
2015
to
2018.
His
previous
books
includeA
History
of
the
World
in
100
Objects,Shakespeare's
Restless
WorldandGermany:
Memories
of
a
Nation,
all
available
in
Penguin
and
now
between
them
translated
into
more
than
a
dozen
languages.
In
2010,
he
was
made
a
member
of
the
Order
of
Merit,
the
UK's
highest
civil
honour.
In
2015
he
was
awarded
the
Goethe
Medal
and
the
German
National
Prize.
In
2018
the
radio
series
Living
with
the
Gods
received
the
Sandford
Saint
Martin
Award
for
Religious
Broadcasting.
Recenzii
Neil
MacGregor
is
pre-eminently
a
teacher.
He
possesses
the
teacher's
two
vital
gifts,
which
are
the
ability
to
distinguish
things
that
are
interesting
from
things
that
are
not,
and
the
capacity
to
change
the
second
category
into
the
first
...
a
mind-expanding
book
The David Attenborough of things that don't move ... Think of it as his Blue Planet
He shows how human beings have always used religion and objects as a way to understand the world around us, from finding some accommodation with light, water and the seasons, to attempting to find some approach towards death. ... Anyone wishing to deepen, if not change their life, will certainly benefit from this remarkable book
Superbly illustrated, with objects and people and places that range far beyond the museum doors, to almost every corner of the world
This scholarly, elegantly written book is a reminder of how seldom, when visiting a museum, most of us take the time to inquire into what lies behind the objects we look at.Living with the Godsis a celebration of curiosity
Our eyes are opened to ways of being human that are unlike anything we could ever experience for ourselves ... Not only is the ancient past made accessible, our present reality is also made strangely questionable
The strength of the book is its thoughtful and sometimes provocative reflections on religion and religiosity through this exceptional range of artefacts
The David Attenborough of things that don't move ... Think of it as his Blue Planet
He shows how human beings have always used religion and objects as a way to understand the world around us, from finding some accommodation with light, water and the seasons, to attempting to find some approach towards death. ... Anyone wishing to deepen, if not change their life, will certainly benefit from this remarkable book
Superbly illustrated, with objects and people and places that range far beyond the museum doors, to almost every corner of the world
This scholarly, elegantly written book is a reminder of how seldom, when visiting a museum, most of us take the time to inquire into what lies behind the objects we look at.Living with the Godsis a celebration of curiosity
Our eyes are opened to ways of being human that are unlike anything we could ever experience for ourselves ... Not only is the ancient past made accessible, our present reality is also made strangely questionable
The strength of the book is its thoughtful and sometimes provocative reflections on religion and religiosity through this exceptional range of artefacts