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Introduction: The Sacred and the Challenge of Modernity
Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SACRED AND THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY
Author: Editor
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/1986
Size: 139 Words, 779 Characters

If the modern era begins with a critique of religion, it ends with man's revolt against the moral...

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... to look back on the road it has traveled.

The symposium, The Sacred and the challenge of Modernity discusses the impact of desacralization on the modern world. The participants suggest that even if the narratives of the past and of modernity have failed us, the actual human acts through which those narratives were given birth are still with us and that those acts can be rediscovered.



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