Our generation lives under the weight of the desacralization of the world.
 Misguidance, deviation, but also hope of rebirth, the
 The question of the sacred is one of the most crucial of our time,
 But what is the sacred? What this word covers seems to us
 so obvious and natural that one would be hard pressed to find
 a definition. This is what Sylvain Durain focuses on in this book.
 Through a genealogy of the notion of the sacred, the author highlights
 highlights the importance of the father figure and the sacrificial act
 in its construction. Divine sacrifice of the incarnate God or sacrifice
 bloody men? These are the two visions of the world that Durain
 opposes. Faced with what he describes as a return of the matriarchal cult
 covered by the ideology of progress, he becomes the defender of the family
 traditional and Christian values. A book for those who, strong
 from the knowledge of the past, work to build the future.

 Essayist, Sylvain Durain co-founded the bookstore Les Deux Cités and the
 Editions du Verbe Haut. He is also the author of This Blood That Binds Us.