The Odyssey of the Sacred

Publisher's presentation

Since its emergence, Homo sapiens has felt awe and admiration before the power of Nature and has questioned the enigma of its existence. From this sense of the sacred were born all the great spiritual and religious movements of the world.

Why sapiens also a Homo spiritus : the only animal that seeks to give meaning to its life, practices funeral rituals, invents great collective stories and often believes in invisible forces?

Frédéric Lenoir attempts to answer these essential questions and, through this journey through time, shows the correlation between the great spiritual revolutions and the upheavals of human societies: from sedentarization to the connected world, through the birth of cities, civilizations, empires and modernity.
After the international success of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, this book by Frédéric Lenoir, the fruit of more than thirty years of research, tells us, in simple and accessible language, the prodigious history of Homo spiritus and the sacred, from prehistory to the present day.

Albin Michel, October 18, 2023 – 528 pages
EAN: 9782226438201
ISBN: 2226438203

Media

France 5 on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 9:00 p.m. live
"La grande librairie!" program hosted by Augustin Trapenard

France 5 on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. live
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