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Flesh and blood : interrogating Freud on human sacrifice, real and imagined
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ISBN: 9789004424791 Year: 2020 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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"Fears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father appear repeatedly in Western traditions, starting with the Greeks and the Hebrews. In Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined, Beit-Hallahmi focuses on rituals of violence tied to religion, both imagined and real. The main focus of this work is the meaning of blood and ritual killing in the history of religion. The book examines the encounter with the idea of child sacrifice in the context of human hopes for salvation"--

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Human sacrifice and value : revisiting the limits of sacred violence from an archaeological and anthropological perspective
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ISBN: 9781032134864 9781032150918 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value - or multiplicity of values - in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned, or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings"--


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Sanglantes origines : entretiens avec Walter Burkert, Renato Rosaldo et Jonathan Z. Smith
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ISBN: 2081289520 9782081289529 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

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Cet essai de René Girard présente et résume les concepts clés de sa théorie : le désir mimétique, le mécanisme victimaire et la révélation judéo-chrétienne. Comparant l'histoire de Milomaki, héros des Indiens yahunas, avec la légende d'Oedipe et les textes de persécution du Moyen Age, l'auteur démontre l'origine persécutrice de tous les mythes et l'universalité du phénomène du bouc émissaire. Pour la seule fois dans toute son oeuvre, René Girard débat ensuite avec trois anthropologues : Walter Burkert, Renato Rosaldo et Jonathan Z Smith. Cette discussion concerne le sacrifice et la domestication, mais aussi les "chasses aux têtes" et aux animaux sauvages. Répondant de façon très convaincante aux objections que soulève sa théorie, l'auteur éclaire d'un nouveau jour les origines sacrificielles de l'humanité.


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Human sacrifice and value : revisiting the limits of sacred violence from an anthropological and archaeological perspective
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ISBN: 1003242472 1003242472 1000981835 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value - or multiplicity of values - in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned, or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings"--


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Sacrifice and modern thought
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ISBN: 0191634166 1299910793 9780191634161 9780191764752 0191764752 9780199659289 0199659281 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford

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Leading specialists in theology, anthropology, religious studies and history elucidate the modern debate about sacrifice from interest shown in the 16th century through to the present day. Individual chapters discuss anthropological theories theological controversies, philosophical interpretations, and literary uses of sacrifice.


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Culture and sacrifice : ritual death in literature and opera
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ISBN: 9781107402911 1107402913 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Die Menschenopfer der alten Hebräer und der benachbarten Völker; : ein Beitrag zur alttestamentlichen Religionsgeschichte.
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Year: 1909 Publisher: Freiburg im Breisgau, : Herder,

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Culture and sacrifice: ritual death in literature and opera
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ISBN: 9780521867337 0521867339 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press,

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Human sacrifice has fascinated Western writers since the beginnings of European literature. It is prominent in Greek epic and tragedy, and returned to haunt writers after the discovery of the Aztec mass sacrifices. It has been treated by some of the greatest creative geniuses, including Shakespeare and Wagner, and was a major topic in the works of many Modernists, such as D. H. Lawrence and Stravinsky. In literature, human sacrifice is often used to express a writer's reaction to the residue of barbarism in his own culture. The meaning attached to the theme therefore changes profoundly from one period to another, yet it remains as timely an image of cultural collapse as it did over two thousand years ago. Drawing on sources from literature and music, Derek Hughes examines the representation of human sacrifice in Western culture from the Iliad to the invasion of Iraq.


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La femme et le sacrifice : d'Antigone à la femme d'à côté
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ISBN: 9782207181423 2207181421 Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris: Denoël,

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On a sacrifié les femmes au nom d’à peu près tout : morale, religion, politique, amour, maternité… En dépit des discours d’émancipation persistent féminicides, violences sexistes et sexuelles, interdits et humiliations. Le destin de la féminité en Occident serait-il sacrificiel ?En témoignent ces grandes héroïnes qui foisonnent dans les textes fondateurs de notre culture. Elles ont pour nom Iphigénie, Hélène, Juliette, Iseut ou encore Jeanne d’Arc. De quelle façon ces figures emblématiques influencent-elles notre inconscient ?Anne Dufourmantelle interroge ces destins spectaculaires en les confrontant à ceux, anonymes, parfois tragiques, de nos amies, sœurs, voisines, inconnues croisées tous les jours dans la rue.D’une écriture subtile, elle approche la secrète texture de nos névroses et déploie la dramaturgie, aussi énigmatique que salvatrice, d’une véritable érotique du sacrifice humain.Dans cet essai de mythologie quotidienne, l’une des plus grandes philosophes de notre époque répond par la douceur à la terreur d’être au monde.


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Die Menschenopfer bei den Griechen und Römern,
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Year: 1915 Publisher: Giessen : Töpelmann,

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Human sacrifice. --- Greece --- Rome --- Religion. --- Religion.

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