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"Meaninglessness is in the long run intolerable: if that is how the world is, people are impelled to pretend otherwise. That is Burkert's central theme, and his treatment of it is immensely impressive. As a study of the various ways in which human beings have, by their religious beliefs, attitudes, and behavior, endowed the world with meaning and imposed order on chaos, 'Creation of the Sacred' is a triumph."Burkert, Walter is the author of 'Creation of the Sacred Tracks of Biology in Early Religions', published 1998 under ISBN 9780674175709 and ISBN 0674175700.
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