Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality
ISBN-13:
9780791444412
ISBN-10:
0791444414
Author:
Morris Berman
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
State Univ of New York Pr
Format:
Hardcover
349 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780791444412
ISBN-10:
0791444414
Author:
Morris Berman
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
State Univ of New York Pr
Format:
Hardcover
349 pages
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Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (ISBN-13: 9780791444412 and ISBN-10: 0791444414), written by authors
Morris Berman, was published by State Univ of New York Pr in 2000.
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Presents an analysis of the "nomadic" consciousness of our ancestors, and the forces --religious and political --that overwhelmed it during the Neolithic era, and considers its revival in the twentieth century.The third book in Morris Berman’s much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as “solid lessons in the history of ideas” (KIRKUS Reviews), “filled with piquant details” (Common Boundary), and “an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad” (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable 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.In an integrated tour de force, 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.
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