by Regis Debray · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213616094
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«Le Feu sacré: fonctions du religieux» is Régis Debray's essay on the religious phenomenon, published by Fayard in 2003 (390 pages, in French).
Following «Dieu, un itinéraire», Debray extends his investigation to identify the foundations of the religious phenomenon. He analyzes the vital, social and psychological functions of religion, understanding the sacred as a path to the profane and the imaginary as a gateway to the real.
The full subtitle is «Fonctions du religieux». The edition is paperback, published by Fayard in 2003, in French.
For readers interested in the philosophy of religion and in the analysis of the role of beliefs and rituals in contemporary society.
Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.
