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Sacrifice 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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Meszaros
- Modern discourse on sacrifice and its theological background / Johannes Zachhuber
- Sacrifice as self-destructive 'love': why autonomy should still matter to feminists / Pamela Sue Anderson
- Sacrifice, atonement, and renewal: intersections between Girard, Kristeva, and Balthasar / Paul S. Fiddes
- Sacrifice and the self / Julia Meszaros
- Sacrificial cults as 'the mysterious centre of every religion': a Girardian assessment of Aby Warburg's theory of religion / Wolfgang Palaver
- From slaughtered lambs to dedicated lives: sacrifice as value-bestowal / Jessica Frazier
- Sacrifice as refusal / Gavin Flood
- Sacrifice in recent Roman Catholic thought: from paradox to polarity, and back again? / Philip McCosker
- Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice / Nick Allen
- The Aztec sacrificial complex / Laura Rival
- Human sacrifice and two imaginative worlds, Aztec and Christian: finding God in evil / David Brown
- Blood sacrifice as a symbol of the paradigmatic other: the debate about Ebó-rituals in the Americas / Bettina E. Schmidt
- Apocalypse and sacrifice in modern film: American exceptionalism and a Scandinavian alternative / Jon Pahl
- Human sacrifice and the literary imagination / Derek Hughes.