Homo Necans
Douban
ISBN: 9780520058750
écrit par:
Walter Burkert
traduit par:
Peter Bing
édition: University of California Press
date de publication: 1986
-11
reliure: Paperback
prix: USD 36.95
nombre de pages: 360
The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Walter Burkert traduit par: Peter Bing
résumé
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.