TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Scheid
AB  - By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the projection, in the imaginary past, of the “origins” of nationalist, religious or racist fantasies, and to disarm exaggerated interpretations of the sacred texts. Within nations inherited from the ...
ID  - OAPEN ID: 15717
KW  - institutions
KW  - ancient history
KW  - archeology
KW  - religion
KW  - history of religions
L1  - http://books.openedition.org/cdf/3009
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58134
PB  - Collège de France
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9782722602663
TI  - Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Romenull
ER  - 
