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Author: Kathryn McClymond Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801896290 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 342
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This award-winning study presents “a thought-provoking examination of sacrifice” that significantly extends our understanding of the practice (James Getz, Journal of Religion). For many Westerners, the term sacrifice suggests ancient and primitive ritual practices. It conjures the notion of slaying an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. In Beyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn McClymond argues that this reductive understanding of sacrifice overlooks an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities. Drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices, McClymond demonstrates that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic. She also shows that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts—death and violence—are not universal. In fact, the world of religious sacrifice varies greatly, including grain-based offerings, precious liquids, and complex interdependent activities. Winner, 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction
Author: Kathryn McClymond Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801896290 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
This award-winning study presents “a thought-provoking examination of sacrifice” that significantly extends our understanding of the practice (James Getz, Journal of Religion). For many Westerners, the term sacrifice suggests ancient and primitive ritual practices. It conjures the notion of slaying an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. In Beyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn McClymond argues that this reductive understanding of sacrifice overlooks an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities. Drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices, McClymond demonstrates that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic. She also shows that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts—death and violence—are not universal. In fact, the world of religious sacrifice varies greatly, including grain-based offerings, precious liquids, and complex interdependent activities. Winner, 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction
Author: Kathryn McClymond Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801887763 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 229
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Argues that the modern Western world's reductive understanding of sacrifice simplifies an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities, drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices to demonstrate not only that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic, but also that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts--death and violence--are not universal.
Author: Paul W. Kahn Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472022946 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 250
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In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn forces us to acknowledge what we don't want to see: that we remain deeply committed to a violent politics beyond law. Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Cover Illustration: "Abu Ghraib 67, 2005" by Fernando Botero. Courtesy of the artist and the American University Museum.
Author: R. Scott Appleby Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780847685554 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 450
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This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.
Author: Daphna Arbel Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0567352633 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 272
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The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy. This volume provides balanced and judicious treatments of the various facets of these topics from a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It provides nuanced examinations of ancient ritual, exploring the various meanings that human sacrifice held for antiquity, and examines its varied repercussions up into the modern world. The book explores evidence to shed new light on the origins of the rite, to whom these sacrifices were offered, and by whom they were performed. It presents fresh insights into the social and religious meanings of this practice in its varied biblical landscape and ancient contexts, and demonstrates how human sacrifice has captured the imagination of later writers who have employed it in diverse cultural and theological discourses to convey their own views and ideologies. It provides valuable perspectives for understanding key cultural, theological and ideological dimensions, such as the sacrifice of Christ, scapegoating,self-sacrifice and martyrdom in post-biblical and modern times.
Author: Susan Juster Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812248139 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence—blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm—to uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the Reformation were introduced and ultimately transformed in the New World.
Author: Jill N. Claster Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442600608 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 378
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In Sacred Violence, Jill N. Claster brings new insight and focus to the history of the crusades. The book includes an 8-page color insert of illustrations, 12 maps, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology of the crusades, and a list of rulers.
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199738963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 349
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An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
Author: Richard K. Fenn Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190286733 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge. To become secular, argues Fenn, is to open oneself and one's society to a wide range of possibilities, some interesting and exciting, some burdensome and dreadful. While some sociologists have argued that a "Civil Religion" is necessary to hold together our newly "religionless" society, Fenn urges that there is nothing to fear--and everything to gain--from living in a society that is not bound together by sacred memories and beliefs, or by sacred institutions and practices.
Author: Sultan Tepe Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804758646 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 433
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Comparing the politics of Judaism and Islam, this book demonstrates that common religious political party characteristics in Israel and Turkey can be as striking as their differences.
Author: Kathryn McClymond
Author: Kathryn McClymond
Author: Kathryn McClymond
Author: Paul W. Kahn
Author: R. Scott Appleby
Author: Daphna Arbel
Author: Susan Juster
Author: Jill N. Claster
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust
Author: Richard K. Fenn
Author: Sultan Tepe