Screen LibrarySacrifice and modern thought /
Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the 16th century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories, theological controversies, philosophical interpretations,...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=4ba4a4bde72f4c698063efb266f655aa |
| Summary: |
Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the 16th century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories, theological controversies, philosophical interpretations, and literary uses of sacrifice. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-270) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191634161 9780199659289 |
| Index Number: | BL570 |
| CLC: | B972 |
| Contents: |
Modern discourse on sacrifice and its theological background / Sacrifice as self-destructive 'love': why autonomy should still matter to feminists / Sacrifice, atonement, and renewal: intersections between Girard, Kristeva, and Balthasar / Sacrifice and the self / Sacrificial cults as 'the mysterious centre of every religion': a Girardian assessment of Aby Warburg's theory of religon / From slaughtered lambs to dedicated lives: sacrifice as value-bestowal / Sacrifice as refusal / Sacrifice in recent Roman Catholic thought: from paradox to polarity, and back again? / Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice / The Aztec sacrificial complex / Human sacrifice and two imaginative worlds, Aztec and Christian: finding God in evil / Blood sacrifice as a symbol of the paradigmatic other: the debate about Ebγo-rituals in the Americas / Apocalypse and sacrifice in modern film: American exceptionalism and a Scandinavian alternative / Human sacrifice and the literary imagination / |