Books written by Hans Joas

  • The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
    The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

    Through a critical reading and reassessment of key texts in the three empirical disciplines of history, psychology, and sociology of religion, including the works of David Hume, J.G. Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, William James, Emile ...

  • Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity
    Faith as an Option: Possible Futures for Christianity

    In this book, Joas spells out some of the consequences of the abandonment of conventional assumptions for contemporary religion and develops an alternative to the cliché of an inevitable conflict between Christianity and modernity.

  • Do We Need Religion?: On the Experience of Self-transcendence
    Do We Need Religion?: On the Experience of Self-transcendence

    ... Mircea Eliade, but not, once again, William James. Once again, this decision has far-reaching consequences: From the very outset, Ricoeur's sights are set on a phenomenology of the sacred, but not a phenomenology of religious experience ...

  • Agire sociale natura umana
    Agire sociale natura umana

    ... individuo nel ruolo del co-uomo, a cura di A. Cera, Napoli, Guida, 2007; Id., Ludwig Feuerbach und der Ausgang der ... del secolo xix, a cura di G. Colli, Torino, Einaudi, 2000. Per le nostre ricerche è rilevante anche A. Schmidt, Il ...

  • SINN UND FORM 4/2023: Beiträge zur Literatur

    SINN UND FORM 4/2023: Beiträge zur Literatur

  • The Oxford Handbook of Émile Durkheim
    The Oxford Handbook of Émile Durkheim

    ... Émile . 1885a . “ Review of ' Albert Schaeffle , Bau und Leben des socialen Körpers ( Organisation et vie du corps ... Emile Durkheim , 1858-1917 , edited by Kurt H. Wolff , 376-385 . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Durkheim ...