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"L’ouvrage rassemble l’intégralité des textes publiés par Jean-Louis Durand (1939-2016), à l’exception du livre Sacrifice et labour, paru en 1986. Il répond à un projet ancien, longtemps remis, visant moins à recueillir des publications anciennes qu’à donner à entendre une démarche et un cheminement, cette « altération profonde de soi par où s’initie le travail anthropologique ».Jean-Louis Durand en a fixé le titre, la structure, les titres des différentes sections. La mort l’a empêché d’en préparer l’introduction et de réaliser la série d’entretiens qui l’eût complété, son enseignement – qui a profondément marqué plusieurs générations de chercheurs – étant resté très largement oral. Le livre n’en permet pas moins de prendre la mesure de l’œuvre, une des toute premières pour l’anthropologie francophone, la pratique comparatiste, la compréhension des sociétés à dieux multiples (celles de l’Antiquité grecque notamment) qu’il renouvelle à partir de la rupture épistémologique qu’ont induite son immersion dans une culture polythéiste et sacrifiante vivante (les Winyé du Burkina Faso) et sa familiarité avec des cultures liées à des formes rituelles de possession.Proche de Jean-Pierre Vernant « qu’il n’a jamais cessé de reconnaître comme son maître malgré les distances théoriques induites par son propre parcours » ou de Marcel Detienne dont il a partagé toutes les aventures comparatistes, il est, avec Charles Malamoud, Michel Cartry ou John Scheid un des acteurs majeurs d’un tournant ritualiste en anthropologie. Ses réflexions sur le rite comme système de gestes (également dans l’image) et sur les dispositifs rituels l’ont conduit à formuler des propositions que tout anthropologue, historien des religions ou praticien des Ritual Studies se doit de considérer.« L’anthropologie n’est pas à ses yeux un domaine comme un autre des activités intellectuelles, mais une véritable expérience intérieure, une autre façon de vivre et de penser, où le chercheur est investi de l’intérieur par l’objet même de sa recherche ».Un livre fondamental qui retiendra tout lecteur soucieux de se construire sur le monde un regard libéré."--

Sacrifice --- Rites et cérémonies --- Lieux sacrificiels --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Sacrifice humain --- Animal sacrifice --- Human sacrifice --- Rites and ceremonies --- Anthropologie --- Anthropology --- History

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The importance of the zooarchaeological evidence as a source for ritual practices in ancient Greece is gradually becoming widely recognized. Animal bones form the only category of evidence for Greek cult which is constantly significantly increasing, and they can complement and elucidate the information provided by texts, inscriptions and images. This volume brings together sixteen contributions exploring ritual practices and animal bones from different chronological and geographical perspectives, foremost ancient Greece in the historical period, but also in the Bronze Age and as early as the Neolithic period, as well as Anatolia, France and Scandinavia, providing new empirical evidence from a number of major sanctuaries and cult-places. On a methodological level, the complexity of identifying ritual activity from the zooarchaeological evidence is a recurrent theme, as is the prominence of local variation visible in the bone material, suggesting that the written sources and iconography may offer simplified or idealized versions of the rituals actually performed. Although zooarchaeology needs to and should be integrated with other kinds of sources, the independent study of the bones in an unbiased manner is of utmost importance, as the bones can provide a different “reality” than that encountered in our other sources.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Animal sacrifice --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Rites and ceremonies --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Rites et cérémonies --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion. --- Religion --- History --- Religious aspects --- Europe --- Religious life and customs --- Archäozoologie. --- Tierknochenfund. --- Tieropfer. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Rites et cérémonies --- Grèce --- Processual archaeology --- Rites and ceremonies - Greece --- Processual archaeology - Greece --- Greece - Religion

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In this study of the ritual of animal sacrifice in ancient Greek religion, Judaism, and Christianity in the period between 100 BC and AD 200, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple (up to AD 70). Contrary to other studies in this area, she demonstrates that the process by which Christianity finally separated its own cultic code from the strong tradition of animal sacrifice was a slow and difficult one. Petropoulou places special emphasis on the fact that Christians gave completely new meanings to the term `sacrifice'. She also explores the question why, if animal sacrifice was of prime importance in the eastern Mediterranean at this time, Christians should ultimately have rejected it.

Animal sacrifice --- Animals --- Sacrifice --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- 292.34 --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- History --- Religious aspects --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Offerings, sacrifices, penances --- Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Animaux --- Judaism --- History of doctrines --- Christianity --- Histoire --- Judaïsme --- Histoire des doctrines --- Christianisme --- Aspect religieux --- Judaisme --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion. --- Religion --- Sacrifice - History --- Animal sacrifice - History --- Animals - Religious aspects --- Animal sacrifice - Greece --- Sacrifice - Judaism --- Sacrifice - Christianity --- Sacrifice - Greece --- Animal --- Histoire des religions --- Grèce ancienne --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme primitif --- Ier s. av JC-IIe s. -- 100 av JC-200

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Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically in the fourth and fifth centuries with the rise of Christianity. Daniel Ullucci offers a new explanation of this remarkable transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice challenges the predominant scholarly model, which posits a connection between so-called critiques of sacrifice in non-Christian Greek, Latin, and Hebrew texts and the Christian rejection of animal sacrifice. According to this model, pre-Christian authors attacked the propriety of animal sacrifice as a religious practice, and Christians responded by replacing animal sacrifice with a pure, ''spiritual'' 'worship. This historical construction influences prevailing views of animal sacrifice even today, casting it as barbaric, backward, and primitive despite the fact that it is still practiced in such contemporary religions as Islam and Santeria. Rather than interpret the entire history of animal sacrifice through the lens of the Christian master narrative, Ullucci shows that the ancient texts must be seen not simply as critiques but as part of an ongoing competition between elite cultural producers to define the meaning and purpose of sacrifice. He reveals that Christian authors were not merely purveyors of pure spiritual religion, but a cultural elite vying for legitimacy and influence in societies that long predated them. The Christian Rejection of Animal Sacrifice is a crucial reinterpretation of the history of one of humanity's oldest and most fascinating rituals.

Animal sacrifice --- Christianity and other religions --- Christian sociology --- Sacrifice d'animaux --- Christianisme --- Sociologie religieuse --- History of doctrines --- History --- Histoire des doctrines --- Relations --- Histoire --- Rome --- Religious life and customs. --- Vie religieuse --- -Christianity and other religions --- -Christian sociology --- -291.34 --- Christian social theory --- Social theory, Christian --- Sociology, Christian --- Sociology --- Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Sacrifice --- -History --- -Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- 291.34 Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- 291.34 --- Animal sacrifice - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Christianity and other religions - Rome. --- Christian sociology - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Rome - Religious life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Doctrines religieuses --- Religion. --- Religion romaine.