Weber and Coyote: Polytheism as a Practical Attitude.
Hyde claims that the trickster spirit is necessary for the renewal of culture, and that he lives only in the 'complex terrain of polytheism'. Fortunately for those of us in monotheistic cultures, Weber gives reasons for thinking that polytheism is making a return, albeit in a new, disenchanted form....
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 211 - 229 |
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