Collaborations and Renegotiations: Re-examining the 'Sacred' in the Film-Making of David Gulpilil and Rolf de Heer

This article discusses the term 'sacred' in relation to the work of nineteenth-century sociologist Émile Durkheim, for whom the word denoted the objects, practices and assumptions that sustained communal solidarity and fostered dynamic energies, whether or not they were conventionally desc...

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Published in:Literature and theology
Main Author: Jasper, Alison E. (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Literature and theology
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