Sacrifice Imagined

Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441104335

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Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice remains a part of our cultural and intellectual 'imaginary'. Hedley proposes good reasons to think that issues of global conflict and the ecological crisis highlight the continuing relevance of the topic of sacrifice for contemporary culture. The subject of sacrifice has been decisively influenced by two books: Girard's The Violence and the Sacred and Burkert's Homo Necans. Both of these are theories of sacrifice as violence. Hedley's book challenges both of these highly influential theories and presents a theory of sacrifice as renunciation of the will. His guiding influences in this are the much misunderstood Joseph de Maistre and the Cambridge Platonists.

Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826420619

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Sacrifice Imagined by Douglas Hedley Pdf

Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice remains a part of our cultural and intellectual 'imaginary'. Hedley proposes good reasons to think that issues of global conflict and the ecological crisis highlight the continuing relevance of the topic of sacrifice for contemporary culture. The subject of sacrifice has been decisively influenced by two books: Girard's The Violence and the Sacred and Burkert's Homo Necans. Both of these are theories of sacrifice as violence. Hedley's book challenges both of these highly influential theories and presents a theory of sacrifice as renunciation of the will. His guiding influences in this are the much misunderstood Joseph de Maistre and the Cambridge Platonists.

Author : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004424807

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Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi Pdf

The horrifying idea of child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father is a theme which appears repeatedly in Western traditions. This book focuses on religious rituals of violence, imagined and real.

Author : Julia Meszaros,Johannes Zachhuber
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191634161

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Sacrifice and Modern Thought by Julia Meszaros,Johannes Zachhuber Pdf

Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been controversial. The present book, which is the result of several years of interdisciplinary collaboration, suggests that in many ways the fascination with sacrifice has its roots in modernity itself. Theological developments following the Reformation, the rediscovery of Greek tragedies, and the encounter with the practice of human sacrifice in the Americas triggered a complex and passionate debate in the sixteenth century which has never since abated. Contributors to this volume, leading experts from theology, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies, describe and discuss how this modern fascination for the topic of sacrifice has evolved, how it has shaped theological debate, the literary imagination, and anthropological theory. Individual chapters discuss in depth major theological trajectories, theories of sacrifice including those of Marcel Mauss and René Girard, and current feminist criticism. They engage with sacrifice in the context of religious and philosophical thought, works of literature and film. They explore different yet overlapping aspects of modernity's obsession with sacrifice. The book does not intend to impose a single narrative over all these diverse contributions but brings them into a conversation around a common centre.

Author : Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802862686

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The Sacrifice of Africa by Emmanuel Katongole Pdf

In The Sacrifice of Africa Emmanuel Katongole confronts this painful legacy and shows how it continues to warp the imaginative landscape of African politics and society. He demonstrates the real potential of Christianity to interrupt and transform entrenched political imaginations and create a different story for Africa ù a story of self-sacrificing love that values human dignity and "dares to invent" a new and better future for all Africans. --

Author : Dennis King Keenan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253110564

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The Question of Sacrifice by Dennis King Keenan Pdf

In this concentrated and detailed look at questions surrounding the act of sacrifice, Dennis King Keenan discusses both the role and the meaning of sacrifice in our lives. Building on recent philosophical discussions on the gift and transcendence, Keenan covers new ground with this exploration of the religious, psychological, and ethical issues that sacrifice entails. According to Keenan, sacrifice is paradoxically called to sacrifice itself. But what does this necessary, yet impossible condition mean for living an ethical life? Along the way to an answer, Keenan considers the views of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Lacan, Levinas, Blanchot, Irigaray, Derrida, Kristeva, Nancy, and Zizek. This thoughtful and provocative work affords a sophisticated philosophical treatment of the question of sacrifice.

Author : Alex Houen,Jan-Melissa Schramm
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192529107

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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature by Alex Houen,Jan-Melissa Schramm Pdf

Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated with sacrifice have been increasingly rejected by writers and others. However, this volume shows that literature has continued to address how different conceptions of sacrifice have been invoked in times of war to convert losses into gains or ideals. While those conceptions have sometimes been rooted in a secular rationalism that values lost lives in terms of political or national victories, spiritual and religious conceptions of sacrifice are also still in evidence, as with the 'martyrdom operations' of jihadis fighting against the 'war on terror'. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict and the contributions explore major war writers including Wordsworth, Kipling, Ford Madox Ford, and Elizabeth Bowen, as well as lesser known authors such as Dora Sigerson, Richard Aldington, Thomas Kinsella, and Nadeem Aslam. The volume covers multiple genres including novels, poetry (particularly elegy and lyric), memoirs, and some films. The contributions address a rich array of topics related to wartime sacrifice including scapegoating, martyrdom, religious faith, tragedy, heroism, altruism, 'bare life', atonement, and redemption.

Author : Joshua Nunziato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108481397

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Augustine and the Economy of Sacrifice by Joshua Nunziato Pdf

Provides the first book-length treatment of what Augustinian thought has to offer contemporary economic theory.

Author : David L. Weddle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814764916

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Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by David L. Weddle Pdf

Common features of sacrifice -- Theories of sacrifice -- Sacrifice in Jewish tradition -- Sacrifice in Christian tradition -- Sacrifice in Islamic tradition

Author : David Pan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810128163

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Sacrifice in the Modern World by David Pan Pdf

This book examines the continuing emphasis, in modern times, on sacrifice. The author takes a close look at Nazi Germany and discusses the ways in which sacrifice was distributed and structured within that society.

Author : Costica Bradatan,Camil Constantin Ungureanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317385677

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Cinema and Sacrifice by Costica Bradatan,Camil Constantin Ungureanu Pdf

Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. Given its capacity to stimulate the imagination and resonate across a wide spectrum of human experiences, sacrifice has always attracted filmmakers. It is on screen that the new grand narratives are sketched, the new myths rehearsed, and the old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalypses and the birth of new worlds. The contributors to this volume are not just scholars of film but also students of religion and literature, philosophers, ethicists, and political scientists, thus offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between cinema and sacrifice. They explore how cinema engages with sacrifice in its many forms and under different guises, and examine how the filmic constructions, reconstructions and misconstructions of sacrifice affect society, including its sacrificial practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z297196709

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Calcutta Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199876402

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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice by Jennifer Wright Knust,Zsuzsanna Varhelyi Pdf

An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.

Author : James Boyd White
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : 9780472083374

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This Book of Starres by James Boyd White Pdf

A fascinating, accessible book that takes the reader on an intellectual and spiritual journey

Author : Kama Maclean,J. David Elam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317637110

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Revolutionary Lives in South Asia by Kama Maclean,J. David Elam Pdf

The term ‘revolutionary’ is used liberally in histories of Indian anticolonialism, but scarcely defined. Implicitly understood, it functions as a signpost or a badge, generously conferred in hagiographies, loosely invoked in historiography, and strategically deployed in contemporary political contests. It is timely, then, to ask the question: Who counts as a ‘revolutionary’ in South Asia? How can we read ‘the revolutionary’ in Indian political formations? And what does it really mean to be ‘revolutionary’ in turbulent late colonial times? This volume takes a biographical approach to the question, by examining the life stories of a series of activists, some well known, who all defined themselves in explicitly revolutionary terms in the early twentieth century: Shyamaji Krishnavarma, V. D. Savarkar, M. K. Gandhi, Bhagat Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru, J.P. Narayan and Hansraj Vohra. The authors interrogate the subversive lives of these figures, tracing their polyglot influences and transnational impacts, to map out the discursive travels of ‘the revolutionary’ in Indian historical and literary worlds from the early 1900s, and to indicate its reverberations in the politics of the present. This book was published as a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.