Research Catalog

Title

Sacrifice and modern thought / edited by Julia Meszaros and Johannes Zachhuber.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Meszaros, Julia T. (Julia Theresa), 1983-
• Zachhuber, Johannes.

Description

viii, 279 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Sacrifice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-270) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Meszaros -- Modern discourse on sacrifice and its theological background / Johannes Zachhuber -- Sacrifice as self-destructive 'love': why autonomy should still matter to feminists / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Sacrifice, atonement, and renewal: intersections between Girard, Kristeva, and Balthasar / Paul S. Fiddes -- Sacrifice and the self / Julia Meszaros -- Sacrificial cults as 'the mysterious centre of every religion': a Girardian assessment of Aby Warburg's theory of religon / Wolfgang Palaver -- From slaughtered lambs to dedicated lives: sacrifice as value-bestowal / Jessica Frazier -- Sacrifice as refusal / Gavin Flood -- Sacrifice in recent Roman Catholic thought: from paradox to polarity, and back again? / Philip McCosker -- Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice / Nick Allen -- The Aztec sacrificial complex / Laura Rival -- Human sacrifice and two imaginative worlds, Aztec and Christian: finding God in evil / David Brown -- Blood sacrifice as a symbol of the paradigmatic other: the debate about Ebó-rituals in the Americas / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Apocalypse and sacrifice in modern film: American exceptionalism and a Scandinavian alternative / Jon Pahl -- Human sacrifice and the literary imagination / Derek Hughes.

ISBN

• 9780199659289
• 0199659281

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library