Creation of the sacred : tracks of biology in early religions / Walter Burkert.
Creation of the sacred : tracks of biology in early religions / Walter Burkert.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Date
1996.
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T0384102
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English
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xii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Culture in a Landscape: Situating Religion -- 2. Escape and Offerings -- 3. The Core of a Tale -- 4. Hierarchy -- 5. Guilt and Causality -- 6. The Reciprocity of Giving -- 7. The Validation of Signs: A Cosmos of Sense.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1996.
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Creation of the sacred : tracks of biology in early religions / Walter Burkert.
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Gifford lectures.
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Originally presented as Gifford lectures delivered in Feb. and Mar. 1989 at the University of St. Andrews.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.
Transferred from N291/204.
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T0384102
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0674175697
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291
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991004506259702626