"The theory of bogostroitel’stvo proceeds from the proposition that every ideology has as its basis a Weltanschauung which unites people in the emotional sense with the “sacred,” which need not necessarily be god." Bogostroitel'stvo entry in The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979)
Sunday, 3 February 2013
My Landscape
"People are my landscape"
Isaiah Berlin
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Oreads - 1902
Horace Bristol - Melee in Shinto Temple, New Year's Day - Japan - 1946