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Livres anciens et modernes

Rushby Kevin

Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World (ISBN:1845290011)

Contable and Robinson 2007,

17,00 €

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(Roma, Italie)

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Auteur
Rushby Kevin
Éditeurs
Contable and Robinson 2007
Thème
Antropologia
Description
S
Jaquette
Non
Etat de conservation
Comme neuf
Reliure
Couverture souple
Dédicacée
Non
Premiére Edition
Non

Description

8gvo, softcover. From the Church in the Middle Ages to the people who prepare sucidide bombers, there is always someone promsing a better tomorrow, if only we do what they say. Although much is made of the clash between Islam and Christianity, here, Kevin Rushby argues that there is no clash we all want the same thing: paradise, Eden, perfection. Rushby sets out on two journeys: a physical one to the Mountain of the ASsassins in Iran, home of htemyth that "bright-eyed maidens of Paradise" await those who die serving Allah; and an intellectual one, back through the history of our ideas about Paradise in the Judaeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Rushby reveals in an accessible mix of history, religion, and philosophy, the reasons why we have come to live in such a divided world by showing how rationalist thought stretches from Pythagoras to Jacobean England and how tales of the gods have brought destruction and terror, from the Book of Revelations to the London Underground bombing of 2005. 272 pages. storia dell'idea di paradiso terrestre.
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