Kathryn (Associate Professor, Georgia State University) McClymond 
Beyond Sacred Violence [EPUB ebook] 
A Comparative Study of Sacrifice

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This award-winning study presents “a thought-provoking examination of sacrifice” that significantly extends our understanding of the practice (James Getz, Journal of Religion).


For many Westerners, the term 
sacrifice suggests ancient and primitive ritual practices. It conjures the notion of slaying an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. In 
Beyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn Mc Clymond argues that this reductive understanding of sacrifice overlooks an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities.


Drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices, Mc Clymond demonstrates that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic. She also shows that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts—death and violence—are not universal. In fact, the world of religious sacrifice varies greatly, including grain-based offerings, precious liquids, and complex interdependent activities.


Winner, 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative Nonfiction

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格式 EPUB ● 网页 232 ● ISBN 9780801896293 ● 出版者 Johns Hopkins University Press ● 发布时间 2008 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 8157470 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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