Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice.

Are social scientific theories and confessional theologies of sacrifice equally well suited as public discourse about religion? The French liberal Protestant theologians of the 5th Section of the École Pratique and the French doyen of sociology, Émile Durkheim and his two main followers, Henri Huber...

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Main Author: Ivan Strenski

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2003.

Series: Numen Book Series 98.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BT263 .S77 2003

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Public Discourse and Theory of Sacrifice
  • French Sacrifice, Catholic Eucharist
  • World without Theory, Amen
  • Bringing Theory (and Theology) Back In
  • Conspiracy/Theory and the Goodness of Society
  • Imagining Sacrifice
  • Epistemology and the Study of Religion
  • Index.