| Critical Times for America Contributor(s): Mack, Burton L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1532679521 ISBN-13: 9781532679520 Publisher: Cascade Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ethics - History | United States - 21st Century |
| LCCN: 2020275188 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Human societies live and breathe through their myths. A myth is not a simple story; it is the complex social reasoning of a people, a way of making sense of the world. Burton Mack calls this reasoning ""social logic,"" and as a master of ancient Rome and the rise of Christianity, he knows that the Western experience has been embedded in the Christian myth as its ""big picture"" narrative. But what happens when the big picture becomes fragmented and when an old myth loses its ability to function in a new world order? Mack is convinced that at the heart of contemporary political crises lies the need to create a new myth beyond the grand narratives and lingering fragments history has given us. Mack invites his reader to think historically about the present, and imaginatively about the future, in this important book about ourselves. |