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this absolutely unique configuration has served as a reference, norm, and model for the West alone in its inven- tion and inventory-taking of others' "religions

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"spiritual power" (even if purely spiritual, which is rarely the case) is, as a power, no less efficacious or determined than the power that rests on the use of physical restraint alone.

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The notion of religion thus cannot be reduced to a space with a simple essence, disembodied as some people would wish. On the contrary, it must be accepted complete with the density of its

turbulent history and the multiple dimensions of the ecclesiastical institution that created it and then firmly perpetuated it over the centuries. Its complex-ity renders it impossible to recognize within it the expression of an innate need that would characterize a  timeless, and just as phantasmagoric,

homo religiosus.

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A spiritual power endowed with an ultra-centralized organization, the Church was also an organ of incomparable power that used accusations of blasphemy and sacri- lege to protect the ideological content of its propaganda.

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These practices made them members of a fraternity as mysterious as it was feared.

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“The Christian tradition cannot imagine any religion other than itself as the true one…” p 11

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Jesus could not have had a "religion'' nor a fortiori have created one, since the thing itself and the word that accompanied its future Christian acceptance did not exist at the beginning of our era

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"The present work wishes to present a clear, if sometimes critical,synthesis of the principal themes, controversies, and works thathave fed into and continue to nourish this vast current."

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"The present work wishes to present a clear, if sometimes critical,synthesis of the principal themes, controversies, and works thathave fed into and continue to nourish this vast current."

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"to recall the history of Christian notions..."

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- Aim for Chapter 1?
- How is it related to the book’s purpose?