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Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter /

Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In 'Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity' it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duyndam, Joachim (Editor , Contribuidor), Korte, Anne-Marie, 1957- (Editor , Contribuidor), Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955- (Editor , Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Colección:Studies in theology and religion ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Sacrifice in modernity : Community, ritual, identity / Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis
  • Part 1 : Sacrifice and community. The Kapsiki home sacrifice / Walter E.A. van Beek ; Pro Patria Mori : Sacrificing life in service of the political community / Theo W.A. de Wit ; Self-sacrifice and the other(s) : Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy's The Sacrifice / Frederiek Depoortere ; "Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt" : The meaning of sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles / Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam ; The nonviolent sacrifice : The role of tapasya in nonviolence / Saskia L.E. van Goelst Meijer
  • Part 2 : Sacrifice and Ritual. Through fire : Creative aspects of sacrificial rituals in the vedic-hindu continuum / Albertina Nugteren ; Sacrifice in early christianity : The social dimensions of a metaphor / Gerard Rouwhorst ; Ritual slaughter, religious plurality and the secularization of dutch society (1919-2011) / Bart Wallet ; Towards a grown-up faith : Love as the basis for Harry Potter's self-sacrifice / Sigrid Coenradie ; Sacrificial scripts, blood values and gender in the twilight vampire narrative / Grietje Dresen ; Sacrificing Judith / Anne-Mareike Wetter
  • Part 3 : Sacrifice and identity. Sacrifice and islamic identity / Abdelilah Ljamai ; Sacrifice : Action within a relationship: a phenomenology of sacrifice / Claudia Mariéle Wulf ; Self-sacrifice between constraint and redemption : Gertrud von Le Fort's The Song at the Scaffold / Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis ; Religion, suffering and female heroism : Transformations in the meaning of sacrifice in a catholic conversion movement / Marjet Derks ; Self-sacrifice and care ethics / Inge van Nistelrooij ; Animal substitution as a reversed sacrifice : An intertextual reading of Genesis 22 and the animal stories of Shūsaku Endō / Sigrid Coenradie ; The fruits of dissent and the operationalization of faith : A midraschic reading of the Akedah / Elliot Lyons.