History and Presence

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History and Presence is written by Robert A. Orsi and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674969073 (ISBN 10) and 9780674969070 (ISBN 13).

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ’s real presence in the host, Robert Orsi imagines an alternative. He urges us to withhold from absence the prestige modernity encourages and instead to approach contemporary religion and history with the gods fully present.