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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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Bulls --- Sacrifice --- Taureaux --- Religious aspects --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- -Sacrifice --- -Burnt offering --- Worship --- Cattle --- Male livestock --- Religious life and customs. --- -Religious aspects --- Grèce --- Burnt offering --- Bull (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- History. --- Bulls - Religious aspects --- Sacrifice - History --- Greece - Religious life and customs
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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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Sacrifice in the Bible --- Sacrifice --- Monotheism --- Sacrifice dans la bible --- Monothéisme --- Christianity --- Christianisme --- 211.219 --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Monotheïsme; polytheïsme; monisme (theodicee) --- Sacrifice. --- 211.219 Monotheïsme; polytheïsme; monisme (theodicee) --- Monothéisme
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Sacrifice --- #GOSA:XV.Alg.M --- 291.34 --- 291.34 Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Burnt offering --- Worship
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Atonement --- Sacrifice --- Biblical teaching --- Biblical teaching. --- 296*51 --- -Atonement --- -296*51 Joodse liturgie --- Joodse liturgie --- Redemption --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Rachat (Théologie) --- Enseignement biblique --- 296*51 Joodse liturgie --- Atonement - Biblical teaching --- Sacrifice - Biblical teaching
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Sacrifice --- 291.34 --- 291.34 Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Comparative religion
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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