Kathryn Mcclymond

Beyond Sacred Violence (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Study of Sacrifice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 termsacrificesuggests ancient and primitive ritual practices. It conjures the notion of slaying an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. InBeyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn McClymond 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, McClymond 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801896293
• Artikelnr.: 60986867

Autorenporträt

Kathryn McClymond is an associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State University.