Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John Gray (Auteur)
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Description du produit
The utopian ideologies that shaped so much of the history of
the last century claimed they were based in science, rejecting traditional
faiths and serving the cause of human enlightenment. BLACK MASS, John Gray's powerful and frightening new book, argues that the
most influential secular ideologies were actually shaped by suppressed
religion. They were versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a
world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an
end. Religion has returned in perverted form: a 'black mass' of political
myths. The war in Iraq was the last of these secular utopias, promising a new era
of democracy and producing blood-soaked anarchy and an emerging theocracy
instead. The death of Utopia does not mean peace. Instead it portends the
resurgence of ancient myths, now in openly fundamentalist forms. Obscurely
mixed with geo-political struggles for the control of natural resources,
apocalytic religion has returned as a major force in global conflict.
