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Sacrifice in Religious Experience (Numem Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions)

By Albert I. Baumgarten

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2002
ISBN
9004124837, 9789004124837
ISSN
0169-8834
LCC
BL570 .S255 2002
Google Books ID
QBYqcrFIK9YC
Open Library ID
OL3559418M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15015435 bytes)
Series
Numem Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions volume Vol. 93
Pages
338\340
DPI
300
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

This volume presents revised papers delivered at the 1998 and 1999 Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences. The papers from the 1998 conference discuss the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective. Those from the second conference examine alternatives to sacrifice. The first theme has been much elaborated in recent scholarship, and the essays here participate in that on-going inquiry. The second theme has been less explored, and the goal of this volume is to stimulate examination of the topic by offering a set of test cases. In both sections of the volume a wide variety of religious traditions are considered. The essays show that in spite of the inclination we may sometimes have to consider sacrifice part of the idolatrous past, long overcome, it remains a persistent and meaningful part of religious experience.

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