Sacrifice in Religious Experience

Brill

2002

viii, 329 p.

Studies in the history of religions ; 93

Includes bibliographical references and index

9789004124837

Pt. 1. Sacrifice from a comparative perspective. Sacrifice in African traditional religions / T. Sundermeier. -- Towards a gendered typology of sacrifice: women & feasting, men & death in an Okinawan village / S. Sered. -- Sacrifice in Mesopotamia / T. Abusch. -- Were the firstborn sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular practice or divine demand? / J. Milgrom. -- The semiotics of the priestly vestments in ancient Judaism / M.D. Swartz. -- Sacrifice and sacrificial ceremonies of the Roman imperial army / P. Herz. -- Sacrifice and theory of sacrifice during the 'Pagan Reaction': Julian the Emperor / N. Belayche. -- Animal sacrifice in ancient Zoroastrianism: a ritual and its interpretations / A. de Jong. Pt. 2. Alternatives to sacrifice. Forgiveness of sins without a victim: Jesus and the Levitical jubilee / A. Destro and M. Pesce. -- Eucharist: surrogate, metaphor, sacrament of sacrifice / B. Chilton. -- This is my body: sacrificial presentation and the origins of Christian ritual / B. Lang. -- The Christian exegesis of the scapegoat between Jews and pagans / D.J. Stökl. -- The body as temple in the High Middle Ages / J.A. Harris. -- Firstfruits in the Quran / J. Benthall. -- Reestablishing sacrifice in times of trouble? Soma Morgenstern's Blutsäule as negative sacrificology / G. Palmer. -- Echoes of sacrifice? Repertoires of giving in the great religions / I.F. Silber.

The volume consists of collected papers from Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences examining (1) the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective and (2) alternatives to sacrifice

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