This book brings together a rich list of interesting and erudite approaches to the study of religion as an inalienable dimension of the human being. The first part is devoted to the analysis of modern, now classic, contributions to the study of religion: E. Durkheim, R. Otto, the College of Sociology, C.-L. Strauss, C.-G. Jung, M. Eliade, P. Berger and J. Habermas; the second, to religion in Greece and ancient Mexico, in the latter case taking as reference the Nahua and Mayan culture as paradigmatic examples of what has been called the “hard core” of Mesoamerican religion.
Can the modern world do without the religious dimension of the zoon politikon? Cancel the political animal from homo religiosus? Can modernity, apart from religion, answer the question about the meaning of existence and the afterlife of death?
It is, without a doubt, a set of essays that offer the possibility of delving in a simple and profound way both into the history of religions and into theoretical perspectives that, in many aspects, will allow us to think about a new orientation of man with the sacred. , myth, history, reason and secularization. A mandatory reference for both academics and students and the public interested in the study of religions.