Sacrifice in Religious Experience.

Sacrifice in Religious Experience.

This book presents revised papers delivered at the 1998 and 1999 Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences. The papers from the 1998 conference discuss the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective. Those from the second conference examine alternativ...

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Main Author: Albert I. Baumgartner (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2002.

Series: Numen Book Series 93.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Sacrifice.
Experience (Religion)
Psychology, Religious.

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Call Number: BL570 .S255 2002

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Albert I. Baumgarten
  • Sacrifice in African Traditional Religions /
  • Theo Sundermeier
  • Towards a Gendered Typology of Sacrifice: Women and Feasting, Men and Death in an Okinawan Village /
  • Susan Sered
  • Sacrifice in Mesopotamia /
  • Tzvi Abusch
  • Were the Firstborn Sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular Practice or Divine Demand? /
  • Jacob Milgrom
  • The Semiotics of the Priestly Vestments in Ancient Judaism /
  • Michael D. Swartz
  • Sacrifice and Sacrificial Ceremonies of the Roman Imperial Army /
  • Peter Herz
  • Sacrifice and Theory of Sacrifice During the 'Pagan Reaction': Julian the Emperor /
  • Nicole Belayche
  • Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Zoroastrianism: a Ritual and its Interpretations /
  • Albert de Jong
  • Forgiveness of Sins Without a Victim: Jesus and the Levitical Jubilee /
  • Adriana Destro and Mauro Pesce
  • Eucharist: Surrogate, Metaphor,Sacrament of Sacrifice /
  • Bruce Chilton
  • This is my Body: Sacrificial Presentation and the Origins of Christian Ritual /
  • Bernhard Lang
  • The Christian Exegesis of the Scapegoat Between Jews and Pagans /
  • Daniel Johannes Stökl
  • The Body as Temple in the High Middle Ages /
  • Jennifer A. Harris
  • Firstfruits in the Quran /
  • Jonathan Benthall
  • Reestablishing Sacrifice in Times of Trouble? Soma Morgenstern's Blutsäule as Negative Sacrificology /
  • Gesine Palmer
  • Echoes of Sacrifice? Repertoires of Giving in the Great Religions /
  • Ilana F. Silber
  • Contributors /
  • Albert I. Baumgarten
  • Index of Names and Subjects /
  • Albert I. Baumgarten.