Sacrifice and Modern Thought

Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories, theological controversies, philosophical interpretations, and literary uses of sacrifice.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Johannes Zachhuber: Modern Discourse on Sacrifice and its Theological Background


• 2: Pamela S. Anderson: Sacrifice as self-destructive love : why autonomy should still matter to feminists


• 3: Paul S. Fiddes: Sacrifice, Atonement and Renewal: Intersections between Girard, Kristeva and von Balthasar


• 4: Julia Meszaros: Sacrifice and the self


• 5: Wolfgang Palaver: Sacrificial Cults as the Mysterious Centre of Every Religion : A Girardian Assessment of Aby Warburg s Theory of Religion


• 6: Jessica Frazier: From Slaughtered Lambs to Dedicated Lives: Sacrifice as Value-Bestowal


• 7: Gavin Flood: Sacrifice as Refusal


• 8: Philip McCosker: Sacrifice in Recent Roman Catholic Thought: From Paradox to Polarity, and Back Againa


• 9: Nick Allen: Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice


• 10: Laura Rival: The Aztec Sacrificial Complex


• 11: David Brown: Human Sacrifice and Two Imaginative Worlds, Aztec and Christian. Finding God in Evil


• 12: Bettina E. Schmidt: Blood Sacrifice as a Symbol of the Paradigmatic Other: The debate about ebó-rituals in the Americas


• 13: Jon Pahl: Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a Scandinavian Alternative


• 14: Derek Hughes: Human Sacrifice and the Literary Imagination

Summary

Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories, theological controversies, philosophical interpretations, and literary uses of sacrifice.

Additional text

The book, I believe, succeeds in its aim to bring together and explore the interlocking endeavours of a diversity of scholarly views on sacrifice without imposing or even suggesting one underlying narrative, or more explicitly, an interpretative unity.

Product details

• Authors: Julia (Postdoctoral Researcher Meszaros, Johannes Meszaros Zachhuber
• Assisted by: Julia Meszaros (Editor), Meszaros Julia (Editor), Johannes Zachhuber (Editor), Zachhuber Johannes (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199659289
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965928-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, comparative religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799