Singular Beast - Jews, Christians, and the Pig

-- New Republic

List of contents

One. An Anological Being
One. The Red Men
Two. Children's Stories
Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses
Two. From One Blood To the Next
Four. The Jew's Sow
Five. Red Easter
Six. Old Jews, Young Christians
Seven. The Little Jew
Three. Christian Flesh
Eight. The Return of the Pig
Nine. Blood and Soul
Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice

About the author

Claudine Fabre-Vassas. Translated by Carol Volk

Summary

An exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans.

Product details

• Authors: Andre D'Almeida, Claudine Fabre-Vassas, Claudine Vassas-Fabre, Carol Volk
• Assisted by: Carol Volk (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.1997
• EAN: 9780231103664
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10366-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity