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Wandering God : a study in nomadic spirituality

Title: Wandering God : a study in nomadic spirituality / Morris Berman.
Author: Berman, Morris, 1944-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

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Description

xiv, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The third book in Morris Berman's trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work. Here, in a discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships." "Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-332) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Experience of Paradox -- The Writing on the Wall -- Politics and Power -- As the Soul Is Bent: The Psycho-Religious Roots of Social Inequality -- Agriculture, Religion, and the Great Mother -- The Zone of Flux -- Wandering God: The Recovery of Paradox in the Twentieth Century -- The Other Voice.

ISBN

0791444414
9780791444412
0791444422
9780791444429

LCCN

99026802

OCLC

ocm41156460
41156460
SCSB-1034620

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Princeton University Library