Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter /

Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter /

Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main...

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Other Authors: Duyndam, Joachim.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Studies in Theology and Religion 22.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Sacrifice.
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern.

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Call Number: BL570

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity /
  • Joachim Duyndam , Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis
  • The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice /
  • Walter E. A. van Beek
  • Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community /
  • Theo W. A. de Wit
  • Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy's The Sacrifice /
  • Frederiek Depoortere
  • "Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt": The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles /
  • Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam
  • The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence /
  • Saskia L. E. van Goelst Meijer
  • Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum /
  • Albertina Nugteren
  • Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor /
  • Gerard Rouwhorst
  • Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919-2011) /
  • Bart Wallet
  • Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter's Self-Sacrifice /
  • Sigrid Coenradie
  • Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative /
  • Grietje Dresen
  • Sacrificing Judith /
  • Anne-Mareike Wetter
  • Sacrifice and Islamic Identity /
  • Abdelilah Ljamai
  • Sacrifice - Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice /
  • Claudia Mariéle Wulf
  • Self-Sacrifice between Constraint and Redemption: Gertrud von Le Fort's The Song at the Scaffold /
  • Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis
  • Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement /
  • Marjet Derks
  • Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics /
  • Inge van Nistelrooij
  • Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shūsaku Endō /
  • Sigrid Coenradie
  • The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Akedah /
  • Elliot Lyons
  • Fascination of Sacrifice /
  • Kathryn McClymond
  • Bibliography
  • Index.