Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Orsi, Robert Anthony (1953-....)
Titre(s) : History and presence [Texte imprimé] / Robert A. Orsi
Publication : Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (367 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Real presence ; The obsolescence of the gods ; Abundant history
; Holy intimacies ; Printed presence ; The dead in the company of the living ;
The happiness of heaven ; Events of abundant evil ; Epilogue: A metric of presence.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-351) and index
"One of the greatest sources of violence in modern history has been the question of
what Jesus meant when he told his disciples at the Last Supper to eat the bread of
his body and drink the wine of his blood and to do so always in remembrance of him.
It erupted in Europe in the sixteenth century and was carried around the globe by
colonizers, missionaries, explorers, and scholars. In its opening chapters, History
and Presence examines the power of this question in modernity, arguing that it shaped
how religion itself as the object of critical scholarly inquiry came to be understood.
The experience of the gods really present was consigned to the premodern, first in
the figure of the Catholic, then elaborated as the heuristic for the religions of
"primitives," dark-skinned people, women, children, the poor, both in the metropolitan
centers of an ever-changing Europe and in its colonies. The distinction between those
who live with the gods really present and others who do not retains broad normative
force even today, evident, for example, in hierarchical models of psychological health
and human maturity. Orsi goes on to ask what if the gods were restored to 'religion'?
Using case studies drawn from Catholic devotional practices Orsi examines the relationships
men and women form with supernatural beings and the consequences of these bonds for
everyday life."--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Eucharistie -- Présence réelle
Dévotion -- Église catholique
Catholiques -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674047891 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0674047893 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45051629t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45051629
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