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Mircea Eliade on how archaic man consecrates time

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Oct 22, 2021
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Good Friday in my Orthodox parish in Baton Rouge

If you’ve read The Benedict Option, you might recall my citing the work of the late English anthropologist Paul Connerton, who, in his dense but powerful little book How Societies Remember, discussed findings on how traditional peoples held on to their culture in the face of liquid modernity’s dissolving e…

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