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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

By Walter Burkert

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0520058755, 9780520058750
Open Library ID
OL7709141M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27589234 bytes)
Pages
185\185
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

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