History and Presence

by Robert A. Orsi

Book Overview

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real presence in the host, Robert Orsi imagines an alternative. He urges us to withhold from absence the prestige modernity encourages and instead to approach contemporary religion and history with the gods fully present.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047893
• ISBN13: 9780674047891
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 377 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"