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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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"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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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.
Human sacrifice --- Ritualism --- Violence
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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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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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Human sacrifice --- Human sacrifice. --- Moloch (Semitic deity). --- Biblical teaching.
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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.
Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Music --- Human sacrifice in literature --- Human sacrifice in art --- Human sacrifice in art. --- Human sacrifice in literature.
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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.
Women --- Human sacrifice --- Feminist theory
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Human sacrifice. --- Greece --- Rome --- Religion. --- Religion.
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