Bücher von Peter Harrison

"What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual history, as he challenges misconceptions about modernity in relation to supernaturalism and belief"--

Just a very small book on all those observations of various things in my life. My mother would keep little books like this in the toilet for the light contemplation of passing guests.But of course you can read it anywhere.

After writing Memories and Poems from a Sunny Clime, I was asked if I would publish a book of all of my poems.

Above Lake Teresa in the quiet hills of Provence, the new Auberge du Lac private retirement home opens its doors for the first time.Amongst the new residents are Charles Drew, a retired policeman with an unusual hobby and Daphne Ferris, retired secretary, with an apparent dislike for all humanity.Between the two of them, an unlikely friendship develops; which holds them in good stead with the arrival of the mysterious Lady Sophie Vanseer and her husband.But their insatiable curiosity becomes their undoing, and as everything seems to spiral out of control, their peaceful retirement becomes a thing of the past.

Peter Harrison has lived in France for over thirty-five years. He recounts some of his memories which have resulted in so many of his poems. From his arrival in Provence with his family and working as a chef in the Var, to his often exasperating but amusing thirteen years as the butler of a very eccentric millionaire in Monaco. He is now retired and lives in Eze.

This book shows how the concept of 'religion' and 'the religions' arose out of controversies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. The birth of 'the religions', conceived to be sets of beliefs and practices, enabled the establishment of a new science of religion in which the various 'religions' were studied and impartially compared.