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Sacrifice in religious experience / edited by Albert I. Baumgarten.

Contributor(s): Baumgarten, Albert I
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: 93.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002Description: viii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004124837 (alk. paper); 9789004124837 (alk. paper)Subject(s): SacrificeDDC classification: 291.3/4 LOC classification: BL570 | .S255 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sacrifice in African traditional religions / T. Sundermeier -- Towards a gendered typology of sacrifice : women & feasting, men & death in an Okinawan village / S. Sered -- Sacrifice in Mesopotamia / T. Abusch -- Were the firstborn sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular practice or divine demand? / J. Milgrom -- The semiotics of the priestly vestments in ancient Judaism / M.D. Swartz -- Sacrifice and sacrificial ceremonies of the Roman imperial army / P. Herz -- Sacrifice and theory of sacrifice during the 'pagan reaction' : Julian the Emperor / N. Belayche -- Animal sacrifice in ancient Zoroastrianism : a ritual and its interpretations / A. de Jong -- Forgiveness of sins without a victim : Jesus and the Levitical Jubilee / A. Destro and M. Pesce -- Eucharist : surrogate, metaphor, sacrament of sacrifice / B. Chilton -- This is my body : sacrifical presentation and the origins of Christian ritual / B. Lang -- The Christian exegesis of the scapegoat between Jews and pagans / D.J. Stökl -- The body as temple in the High Middle Ages / J.A. Harris -- Firstfruits in the Quran / J. Benthall -- Reestablishing sacrifice in times of trouble? : Soma Morgenstern's Blutsäule as negative sacrificology / G. Palmer -- Echoes of sacrifice? : repertoires of giving in the great religions / I.F. Silber.

Revisions of selected papers presented at 2 international conferences held in 1998 and 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sacrifice in African traditional religions / T. Sundermeier -- Towards a gendered typology of sacrifice : women & feasting, men & death in an Okinawan village / S. Sered -- Sacrifice in Mesopotamia / T. Abusch -- Were the firstborn sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular practice or divine demand? / J. Milgrom -- The semiotics of the priestly vestments in ancient Judaism / M.D. Swartz -- Sacrifice and sacrificial ceremonies of the Roman imperial army / P. Herz -- Sacrifice and theory of sacrifice during the 'pagan reaction' : Julian the Emperor / N. Belayche -- Animal sacrifice in ancient Zoroastrianism : a ritual and its interpretations / A. de Jong -- Forgiveness of sins without a victim : Jesus and the Levitical Jubilee / A. Destro and M. Pesce -- Eucharist : surrogate, metaphor, sacrament of sacrifice / B. Chilton -- This is my body : sacrifical presentation and the origins of Christian ritual / B. Lang -- The Christian exegesis of the scapegoat between Jews and pagans / D.J. Stökl -- The body as temple in the High Middle Ages / J.A. Harris -- Firstfruits in the Quran / J. Benthall -- Reestablishing sacrifice in times of trouble? : Soma Morgenstern's Blutsäule as negative sacrificology / G. Palmer -- Echoes of sacrifice? : repertoires of giving in the great religions / I.F. Silber.

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