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Animal Sacrifice and the Origins of Islam
Islam is the only biblical religion that still practices animal sacrifice. Indeed, every year more than a million animals are shipped to Mecca from all over the world to be …
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new …
Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
Jan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption …
Augustine and the Economy of Sacrifice
Business is generally viewed as a means to generate personal or corporate wealth, but business transactions can also sacrificially serve the common good. In conversation with …
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation
This compelling book argues that American patriotism is a civil religion of blood sacrifice, which periodically kills its children to keep the group together. The flag is the …
Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews
This study focuses on the way the Letter to the Hebrews explains the Christian doctrine of salvation.
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
In ancient China, the preparation of food and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and …
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late …
Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership
Teotihuacan was one of the earliest and more populous preColumbian cities, and the Feathered Serpent was its vital monument, erected circa 200 AD. This work explores the religious …
Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
In this book, Paul Moser explains how self-sacrificial righteousness of a reparative kind is at the heart of Paul's gospel of God. He also shows how divine self-sacrifice …