Gambling with eliade: Las Vegas and the disaster of the sacred
Though Mircea Eliade claims that the sacred is ambivalent - both holy and cursed - a close examination of his writings reveals a privileging of the right, or pure, side of the sacred and a concomitant suppression of the left, or impure, side. This paper turns to Georges Bataille’s theory of the sacr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Romanian Association for the History of Religions
2011
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Archaeus
Year: 2011, Volume: XV, Issue: 1+02, Pages: 93-117 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ecstasy
B Festival performance B Georges Bataille B Mircea Eliade B Sacred B uncanny B Las Vegas |
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