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In this book, Paolo Diego Bubbio offers an alternative to standard philosophical accounts of the notion of sacrifice, which generally begin with the hermeneutic and postmodern traditions of the twentieth century, starting instead with the post-Kantian tradition of the nineteenth century. He restructures the historical development of the concept of sacrifice through a study of Kant, Solger, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, and shows how each is indebted to Kant and has more in common with him than is generally acknowledged. Bubbio argues that although Kant sought to free philosophical thought from religious foundations, he did not thereby render the role of religious claims philosophically useless. This makes it possible to consider sacrifice as a regulative and symbolic notion, and leads to an unorthodox idea of sacrifice: not the destruction of something for the sake of something else, but rather a kenotic emptying, conceived as a withdrawal or a "making room" for others.
Sacrifice. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Burnt offering --- Worship
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The book treats the compelling question of war and personal responsibility in contemporary America. Cheyney Ryan examines how Americans often support modern warfare but have zero interest in fighting themselves (hence, the 'chickenhawk syndrome,' where one who champions war seeks to avoid any personal sacrifice). Ryan seeks to show how we must come to terms with our understanding and valuing of war when we ourselves are not committed to fighting in it.
War and society --- Sacrifice --- Responsibility --- Accountability --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Social aspects
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Traditions of sacrifice exist in almost every human culture and often embody a society’s most meaningful religious and symbolic acts. Ritual violence was particularly varied and enduring in the prehistoric South American Andes, where human lives, animals, and material objects were sacrificed in secular rites or as offerings to the divine. Spectacular discoveries of sacrificial sites containing the victims of violent rituals have drawn ever-increasing attention to ritual sacrifice within Andean archaeology. Responding to this interest, this volume provides the first regional overview of ritual killing on the pre-Hispanic north coast of Peru, where distinct forms and diverse trajectories of ritual violence developed during the final 1,800 years of prehistory. Presenting original research that blends empirical approaches, iconographic interpretations, and contextual analyses, the contributors address four linked themes—the historical development and regional variation of north coast sacrifice from the early first millennium AD to the European conquest; a continuum of ritual violence that spans people, animals, and objects; the broader ritual world of sacrifice, including rites both before and after violent offering; and the use of diverse scientific tools, archaeological information, and theoretical interpretations to study sacrifice. This research proposes a wide range of new questions that will shape the research agenda in the coming decades, while fostering a nuanced, scientific, and humanized approach to the archaeology of ritual violence that is applicable to archaeological contexts around the world.
Human sacrifice --- Sacrifice --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Peru --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Sacrifice, Human --- Ritual murder
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In this book, Claudia Moser offers a new understanding of Roman religion in the Republican era through an exploration of sacrifice, its principal ritual. Examining the long-term imprint of sacrificial practices on the material world, she focuses on monumental altars as the site for the act of sacrifice. Piecing together the fragments of the complex kaleidoscope of Roman religious practices, she shows how they fit together in ways that shed new light on the characteristic diversity of Roman religion. This study reorients the study of sacrificial practice in three principal ways: first, by establishing the primacy of sacred architecture, rather than individual action, in determining religious authority; second, by viewing religious activities as haptic, structured experiences in the material world rather than as expressions of doctrinal, belief-based mentalities; and third, by considering Roman sacrifice as a local, site-specific ritual rather than as a single, monolithic practice.
Rites and ceremonies --- Sacrifice --- Altars --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- E-books --- Animal sacrifice --- Votive offerings --- Sacred space --- Temples, Roman --- Architecture, Roman
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In this concentrated and detailed look at questions surrounding the act of sacrifice, Dennis King Keenan discusses both the role and the meaning of sacrifice in our lives. Building on recent philosophical discussions on the gift and transcendence, Keenan covers new ground with this exploration of the religious, psychological, and ethical issues that sacrifice entails. According to Keenan, sacrifice is paradoxically called to sacrifice itself. But what does this necessary, yet impossible condition mean
Philosophical theology. --- Sacrifice. --- Sacrifice --- Philosophy, European --- Philosophical theology --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Theology, Philosophical --- Philosophy and religion --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- European philosophy --- Christianity
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A classic renowned for both its content and its French literary style that today still influences the direction of far-right conservatism in Western political thought.
Providence and government of God. --- Good and evil. --- Sacrifice. --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- God --- Providence and government --- Sovereignty
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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 characteristics of traditional sacrifice, are dynamics of our modern times as well which cannot be understood without sacrificial awareness. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
Sacrifice. --- Conduct of life. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- History
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Sacrifier, mettre à mort rituellement une victime animale, voilà qui s'inscrit au cœur de multiples pratiques des sociétés musulmanes, qu'elles soient transplantées en Europe, ou qu'on les observe parmi ce milliard d'individus qui, à travers le monde, de l'Afrique à l'Asie, suit la foi révélée par le Prophète Muḥammad. Égorger de ses ongles la victime animale au Maghreb, boire ou se baigner dans le sang de celle-ci dans les cultes zar soudanais, partager et cuisiner les chairs des bêtes égorgées au sein de la communauté, comme dans la Grèce ancienne, ou solliciter une protection. Que reste-t-il de l'islam dans ces formes quotidiennes du sacrifice ? Encore faudrait-il, ou non, distinguer celui-ci de l'abattage rituel des animaux nécessaires à la consommation halâl des chairs, tout comme dans le cas des viandes juives casher. On peut mettre pourtant en évidence un modèle musulman du rituel sacrificiel, que reconstruit l'anthropologue à partir des rites établis dans la sunna, dans les gestes et dires du Prophète. Le sacrifice que se propose de faire Abraham de son fils, Isaac pour les juifs, Ismaël pour les musulmans, répond à des questions fondamentales : comment peut-on naître d'une femme ? Comment assumer le rôle de père et la soumission du musulman à Dieu ? Questions que pose aussi le sacrifice effectué pour la naissance d'un enfant. Voilà la vision orthodoxe qui inspire le sacrifice du Pèlerinage à La Mekke, et celui effectué le même jour dans l'ensemble de la communauté musulmane à l'occasion de la fête de l'ayd al-kabîr. L'islam n'inscrit pas, contrairement au christianisme, le sacrifice au cœur de son dogme. Il lui accorde cependant une place essentielle dans ses pratiques rituelles : accompagnant toutes les étapes de la vie individuelle, producteur du lien social, lieu de multiples recompositions et transgressions, produisant de nouvelles références locales à l'universalité que celles qu'induit le modèle ibrâhîmien, les rituels sacrificiels musulmans…
Sacrifice --- Islam --- Rituals --- 297.13 --- -Sacrifice --- -Burnt offering --- Worship --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Islam: cultus; liturgie --- Rituals. --- Islam. --- -Islam: cultus; liturgie --- 297.13 Islam: cultus; liturgie --- -297.13 Islam: cultus; liturgie --- Burnt offering --- Sharia (Islamic religious practice) --- Sacrifice - Islam --- Islam - Rituals --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Muslim anthropology - Ritual sacrifices. --- Coutumes et pratiques
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Women --- Violence --- Sacrifice --- Abused women --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Battered woman syndrome --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Crimes against women --- Femicide --- Women victims of crime --- Crimes against
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National socialism --- Mythology --- Violence --- Sacrifice --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Political aspects --- History --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Myths --- Legends --- Religion --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Burnt offering --- Worship
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