Understanding Religious Sacrifice

Name: Understanding Religious Sacrifice
Brand: Continuum
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By Jeffrey Carter

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This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. Collected here are twenty five influential selections, each with a brief introduction addressing the overall framework and assumptions of its author. As they present different theories and examples of sacrifice, these selections also discuss important concepts in religious studies such as the origin of religion, totemism, magic, symbolism, violence, structuralism and ritual performance. Students of comparative religion, ritual studies, the history of religions, the anthropology of religion and theories of religion will particularly value the historical organization and thematic analyses presented in this collection.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

480

Release Date:

2003-03-01

Publication Date:

2003-03-01

Publisher:

Continuum

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0826448798

ISBN13:

9780826448798

Weight:

1090 g

Height:

183 cm

Width:

260 cm

Thickness:

30 cm

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