Wandering God
Subtitle: a study in nomadic spirituality
By: Morris Berman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Spiritual life; Consciousness -- Religious aspects; Paradox -- Religious aspects; Nomads; Hunting and gathering societies; Social evolution
Description: "The third book in Morris Berman's trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work. Here, in a discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships.".

"Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of "paradoxical" consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-332) and index