Human sacrifice is a well-attested and much mythologised phenomenon of human society, but what constitutes human sacrifice? Why is socially sanctioned violence considered sacrifice? And why are human lives sacrificed? New research uses archaeological case studies from Scandinavia to understand performative violence
Representations of human sacrifice, whether based upon real or fictitious events, powerfully demonst...
The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Pato...
A sacrifice is the most active and effective way devotees may engage with divinities in a way that m...
The topic of human sacrifice, which tends to provoke both fascination and disgust, leaves few people...
Sacrifice is a ritual practice including funerals. Rituals teach people to be-lieve in cultural prin...
If sacrifice is the social act par excellence, then individual reason, with its pantheon of human ri...
The phenomenon of sacrifice has been analyzed by Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bataille and many other philoso...
Almost all religions have sacrificial practices during the history of mankind. However, the forms of...
The discussion of ritual killing and sacrifice of humans in Old Norse religion has a long tradition....
While many forms of violence against human beings are considered taboo, others are considered accept...
This dissertation offers an archaeologically and art historically grounded inquiry into the actualit...
<b>Blood sacrifice and moral formation: Violence as a facet of Christian traditions</b...
International audienceSacrifice is an ancient and powerful idea, rich with contradictions. These day...
It is a research on religion, as one of the major machineries of the age-old scapegoating mechanism....
Almost all religions have sacrificial practices during the history of mankind. However, the forms of...
Representations of human sacrifice, whether based upon real or fictitious events, powerfully demonst...
The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Pato...
A sacrifice is the most active and effective way devotees may engage with divinities in a way that m...
The topic of human sacrifice, which tends to provoke both fascination and disgust, leaves few people...
Sacrifice is a ritual practice including funerals. Rituals teach people to be-lieve in cultural prin...
If sacrifice is the social act par excellence, then individual reason, with its pantheon of human ri...
The phenomenon of sacrifice has been analyzed by Hegel, Kierkegaard, Bataille and many other philoso...
Almost all religions have sacrificial practices during the history of mankind. However, the forms of...
The discussion of ritual killing and sacrifice of humans in Old Norse religion has a long tradition....
While many forms of violence against human beings are considered taboo, others are considered accept...
This dissertation offers an archaeologically and art historically grounded inquiry into the actualit...
<b>Blood sacrifice and moral formation: Violence as a facet of Christian traditions</b...
International audienceSacrifice is an ancient and powerful idea, rich with contradictions. These day...
It is a research on religion, as one of the major machineries of the age-old scapegoating mechanism....
Almost all religions have sacrificial practices during the history of mankind. However, the forms of...
Representations of human sacrifice, whether based upon real or fictitious events, powerfully demonst...
The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Pato...
A sacrifice is the most active and effective way devotees may engage with divinities in a way that m...
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