Since his appearance, Homo sapiens has felt terrified and admired in the face of Nature and wondered about his existence. From this feeling of the sacred were born all the great spiritual and religious currents of the world. Why is he the only animal that seeks to give meaning to his life, practices funeral rituals and invents great collective stories?Frédéric Lenoir tries to answer these questions and shows, over the course of this journey through time, the correlation between the great spiritual revolutions and the upheavals of human societies, from sedentarization to the connected world through the birth of cities, civilizations, empires and modernity. This book, the fruit of more than thirty years of research, tells us the prodigious history of Homo spiritus.A unique reference book, as well known as accessible and beautifully documented. Linda Pommereul, bookstore Doucet (Le Mans), Page des libraires.