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The Idea of the Holy
The Idea of the Holy
Author: Rudolf Otto
Before religion became "morality touched with emotion", it was the emotion itself, or a group of emotions, and it still is. Those emotions are, in the translator's summary, "the feeling of the uncanny, the thrill of awe or reverence, the sense of dependence, of impotence, or of nothingness, or again, the feelings of religious rapture and exaltat...  more »
ISBN: 269213
Publication Date: 1958
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This is a classic exposition of the idea of the "tremendous", which the author famously calls the "numinous". In other words, the sense of the Other.


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