Evil in Modern Myth and Ritual
by Richard Stivers
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Richard Stivers' concern is with the social construction of evil, that is, with how modern societies, in a partly unconscious way, create evil as a category of the sacred and how symbols, myths, and rituals of evil are related to this. He is interested, moreover, in how modern societies provoke individuals to commit evil actions.This fascinating and stimulating book is the first attempt to work out in detail how the concepts of the sacred, symbol, myth, and ritual form a cultural show more configuration in modern technological societies, and not just in traditional societies. show lessTags
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Richard Stivers is professor of sociology at Illinois State University
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- Original publication date
- 1982
- People/Characters
- Mircea Eliade; Auguste Comte; Sigmund Freud; Marshall McLuhan
- First words
- The following study should be confused neither with a metaphysics of evil nor with a theology of evil.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But this is just as Huxley foresaw in Brave New World: the individual was reduced to a therapeutic role-player before transitory and faceless groups.
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
