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Crime --- Marginality, Social --- Rumor --- Criminalité --- Marginalité --- Rumeur --- History --- Histoire --- Sacrifice humain --- Meurtre rituel --- Juifs --- Human sacrifice --- Persécutions --- History. --- Criminalité --- Marginalité --- Sacrifice humain - Histoire --- Meurtre rituel - Histoire --- Juifs - Persécutions - Histoire --- Human sacrifice - History

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This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation - especially in Ancient India and Greece - and consider the commonalities of their historical raison d'etre. Scholars have long observed, yet without presenting any transcultural grand theory on the matter, that sacrifice seems to end with (or even continue as) philosophy in both Ancient India and Greece. How are we to understand this important transformation that so profoundly changed the way we think of religion (and philosophy as opposed to religion) today? Some of the complex topics inviting closer examination in this regard are the interiorisation of ritual, ascetism and self-sacrifice, sacrifice and cosmogony, the figure of the philosopher-sage, transformations and technologies of the self, analogical reasoning, the philosophy of ritual, vegetarianism, and metempsychosis.

Offer --- Riter --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Sacrifice --- Sacrifice. --- Historia --- History --- History of doctrines. --- Greece. --- India. --- History. --- Sacrifice - India. --- Rites and ceremonies - India - History. --- Sacrifice - Greece. --- Rites and ceremonies - Greece - History. --- Sacrifice - History of doctrines.

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Bulls --- Sacrifice --- Taureaux --- Religious aspects --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- -Sacrifice --- -Burnt offering --- Worship --- Cattle --- Male livestock --- Religious life and customs. --- -Religious aspects --- Grèce --- Burnt offering --- Bull (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- History. --- Bulls - Religious aspects --- Sacrifice - History --- Greece - Religious life and customs

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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.