Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity : from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter

Sacrifice in modernity community, ritual, identity : from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter

Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Duyndam, Joachim, editor (editor), Korte, Anne-Marie, editor, Poorthuis, Marcel, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill [2017]
Colección:Studies in theology and religion ; v. 22.
Materias:
Sacrifice.
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009646935106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity / Joachim Duyndam , Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis
  • The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice / Walter E. A. van Beek
  • Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community / Theo W. A. de Wit
  • Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy’s The Sacrifice / Frederiek Depoortere
  • “Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt”: The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin’s Der Tod des Empedokles / Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam
  • The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence / Saskia L. E. van Goelst Meijer
  • Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum / Albertina Nugteren
  • Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor / Gerard Rouwhorst
  • Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919–2011) / Bart Wallet
  • Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter’s Self-Sacrifice / Sigrid Coenradie
  • Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative / Grietje Dresen
  • Sacrificing Judith / Anne-Mareike Wetter
  • Sacrifice and Islamic Identity / Abdelilah Ljamai
  • Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice / Claudia Mariéle Wulf
  • Self-Sacrifice between Constraint and Redemption: Gertrud von Le Fort’s The Song at the Scaffold / Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis
  • Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement / Marjet Derks
  • Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics / Inge van Nistelrooij
  • Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shūsaku Endō / Sigrid Coenradie
  • The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Akedah / Elliot Lyons
  • Fascination of Sacrifice / Kathryn McClymond
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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