Sacred eternal

"Nostalgia for the sacred", by Michel Maffesoli. Deer Edition

By: Geneviève Delrue

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World Religions - Sunday June 28, 2020 - 11.10-10.00 a.m. (Paris time)

For sociologist Michel Maffesoli , professor emeritus at La Sorbonne and author of numerous works on postmodern man, the sacred is making a comeback.

In a society saturated with both the excesses of rationalism inherited from the Enlightenment and politics, would again express itself by a pendulum movement this need to dialogue with transcendence and mystery through the mediation of the senses. His latest essay "  Nostalgia for the Sacred  " (Deer) analyzes the resurgence of an emotional practice.

For its part, Le Monde de la Bible devotes its summer file to places of worship through the ages - from the temples of Pharaonic Egypt to contemporary churches - by questioning their sacredness or not. Benoît de Sagazan , editor-in-chief of this history review, highlights the Christian and in this case Catholic specificity of having wanted to sanctify the divine presence in a material construction, in contradiction with the teaching of the tenacious disciples of Jesus of a "deterritorialized" religion. The latter were followed in the 12th century by medieval heterodoxes, then in the time of the Reformation by the Protestants, all of whom attached importance only to the "Living Stones" that are Christians.

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