The Odyssey of the Sacred
Publisher's presentation
Since its emergence, Homo sapiens has felt both awe and wonder at the power of Nature and pondered the enigma of its existence. From this sense of the sacred arose all the great spiritual and religious movements of the world.
Why is sapiens Homo spiritus : the only animal that seeks to give meaning to its life, practices funeral rituals, invents great collective narratives and often believes in invisible forces?
Frédéric Lenoir attempts to answer these essential questions and, throughout this journey through time, demonstrates the correlation between major spiritual revolutions and the upheavals in human societies: from the shift to a sedentary lifestyle to the connected world, by way of the birth of cities, civilizations, empires, and modernity.
Following the international success of Sapiens *, this book by Frédéric Lenoir, the fruit of more than thirty years of research, recounts, in simple and accessible language, the extraordinary history of Homo spiritus and the sacred, from prehistory to the present day.
Albin Michel, October 18, 2023 – 528 pages
EAN: 9782226438201
ISBN: 2226438203
Translations
Brazil (Portuguese language) : VOZES
Spain (Castilian language) : DEUSTO
Portugal: NOBILIS
Media
France 5, Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 9:00 PM live:
"La grande librairie!" program hosted by Augustin Trapenard
France 5, Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM live:
"C à vous," a program hosted by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine