The Saviour Syndrome: Searching for Meaning in an Age of Unbelief - Couverture souple

Carroll, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1989555829 ISBN 13 : 9781989555828

Editeur : The Sutherland House Inc., 2023

Synopsis

Who do we look up to? Christ the Savior is no more. In the modern West, the life of the most significant figure in the history of the ture is assumed to be obsolete. What remains?
Quite a lot, actually. In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist John Carroll argues that humans in the Western tradition are, by their nature, savior seeking. What he describes as a 'savior syndrome' impels humans to find someone, or some equivalent, to show the way to a better life and counter the quintessentially modern ordeal of unbelief.
Drawing on literature, history, and a range of popular ture sources from the Sopranos to the Bachelorette, he demonstrates how we are constantly investing people around us—teachers, leaders, performers, athletes, even children—with exemplary or transcendent qualities that we look up to and identify with, and strike to emulate. Jesus himself may be no more, but the archetype he founded continues to resonate long after his eclipse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Carroll is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Senior Fellow of Yale University. He has degrees in mathematics, economics and sociology from the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. His work focuses on culture, and its crucial role in the human search for meaning, with particular reference to the modern Western society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Sutherland House Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1989555829
• ISBN 13: 9781989555828
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible