The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

by Hans Joas

Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the history of religion?

In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a new sociological theory of religion by first reconstructing existing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190933275
• ISBN13: 9780190933272
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"