Mark of the Sacred

This study of religion and violence "forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies" (Charles Taylor).Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided vie...