ENGLISH

The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present

By Marcel Poorthuis , Joshua Schwartz , Alberdina Houtman , Yossi Turner

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
900428415X, 9789004284159
ISSN
1388-2074
Google Books ID
fwWjBQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15802104 bytes)
Series
Jewish and Christian Perspectives 28
Pages
xii+482\495
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-08-07 13:09:56
Религиоведение;Общее и сравнительное религиоведени

Description

Sacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community events. The essays in this volume discuss the various positions regarding the value of sacrifice in a wide variety of disciplines such as history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, art and gender and post-colonial studies. In this context they examine a wide array of questions pertaining to the 'actuality of sacrifice' in various social, historical and intellectual contexts ranging from the pre-historical to the post-Holocaust, and present new understandings of some of the most sensitive topics of our time.

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