A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, ...(展开全部)

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, ...(展开全部)

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson’s Darwin’s Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both evolutionary biology and social th...(展开全部)

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

珍•罗伯兹（Jane Roberts，1929—1984），美国作家、诗人，20世纪最重要的通灵作家，其最著名的著作是赛斯书系列。从1963年起，珍为赛斯口述了本书及《灵魂永生》《个人实相的本质》《心灵的本质》《未知的实相》《梦与意识的投射》等书。这些资料探讨了人类心灵的本质，涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等领域，被认为新时代运动的基石，被西方人誉为有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。这些作品与她的诗歌和小说目前均保存在耶鲁大学图书馆。

我们不需要认为有神的存在，但是我们不妨假设用神这样很模糊的概念，去泛指这样的生物现象里面的复杂的生生不息的创造力，这种创意，这种偶然出现的东西，这种预先发明的器官，还有各种生物机能之间的配合，这样的东西，我们就能够尊敬它，看到演化的奇迹，我们不需要假设有神，也能够为它而迷倒，相信这样的东西是神圣的。