SAINTS & SINNERS: An Account of Western
Civilization
Antti P. Balk (author)
hardcover, 798 pp.
This unique look at history elaborately recounts the birth
of human
civilization through the vehicle of ancient Egyptian deities, albeit in
light of the most recent knowledge on archaeology, anthropology,
comparative
religion, linguistics, sociology, and general history. It moves quickly
but seamlessly to Greece via Crete, revealing the relatively young age
of Continental European (and by extension, all Western) culture,
science,
art, and religion, and their highly derivative nature--a point subtly
repeated
throughout this stunningly wide-ranging work. It does not, however,
presume
to pass judgement, only to relate the events as they happened, the
facts
as they stand, even if many of them are little known ones, conspicuous
by their absence in standard school history books. A book of contrasts,
it constantly compares not only the Saints and the Sinners, but the
East
and the West, be the issues dealt with political or religious; in most
cases, the one cannot be separated from the other.
ISBN: 978-952-5700-00-8
(1st ed.)
RRP £ 20.00 (incl. VAT
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