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Book Synopsis On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India by : Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja)
Download or read book On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India written by Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India by : Rājendralāla Mitra
Download or read book On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India written by Rājendralāla Mitra and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Sacrifices in India by : Sir John Campbell
Download or read book Human Sacrifices in India written by Sir John Campbell and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Strange World of Human Sacrifice by : Jan N. Bremmer
Download or read book The Strange World of Human Sacrifice written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Book Synopsis Ritual Sacrifice by : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Download or read book Ritual Sacrifice written by Brenda Ralph Lewis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Book Synopsis Human Sacrifice--in History and Today by : Nigel Davies
Download or read book Human Sacrifice--in History and Today written by Nigel Davies and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sacred Killing written by Anne Porter and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
Book Synopsis The Head Beneath the Altar by : Brian Collins
Download or read book The Head Beneath the Altar written by Brian Collins and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of Girard’s work, drawing connections between his thought and the work of theorists like Georges Dumézil and Giorgio Agamben. Brian Collins examines the idea of sacrifice from the earliest recorded rituals through the flowering of classical mythology and the ancient Indian institutions of the duel, the oath, and the secret warrior society. He also uncovers implicit and explicit critiques in the tradition, confirming Girard’s intuition that Hinduism offers an alternative anti-sacrificial worldview to the one contained in the gospels.
Book Synopsis Greek Myth and Religion by : Albert Henrichs
Download or read book Greek Myth and Religion written by Albert Henrichs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion. What was ancient Greek religion really like? What is the reality of belief and action that lies behind the unwieldy sources, which stem from vast areas and epochs of the ancient world? What is the meaning, intended and otherwise, of religious action and speech in ancient Greece? Who were the Greek gods, how were they worshipped, and how were they viewed by those who worshipped them? One of the leading students of ancient Greek religion over the past five decades, Albert Henrichs, the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, combines wide and deep learning, a pragmatic, incisive approach to the sources, and an apt use of comparative perspectives. Henrichs breaks new ground in discussing sacrifice, libation, cultic identity, religious action and speech, epiphany, and the personalities of the gods. Special attention is devoted to ancient Greek sources on the ancient Persian prophet Mani, founder of Manichaeism. As a group, Albert Henrichs’ papers on Greek religion offer a basic education on Greek myth and religion and constitute a blueprint for serious study of the subject.
Book Synopsis Cooking the World by : Charles Malamoud
Download or read book Cooking the World written by Charles Malamoud and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of Vedic and Brahmanic ritual. The author attempts to explore the implications of the classical Hindu definition of man: of all the animals fitted to be sacrificial victims, only man can perform sacrifices.
Download or read book Sacred Killing written by Anne Porter and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
Book Synopsis Cyclopedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia by : E. Balfour
Download or read book Cyclopedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by E. Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India by : Richard Seaford
Download or read book The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India written by Richard Seaford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
Book Synopsis Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World by : Sarah Hitch
Download or read book Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World written by Sarah Hitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
Book Synopsis Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership by : Saburo Sugiyama
Download or read book Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership written by Saburo Sugiyama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeological examination of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as a symbol of power in Teotihuacan.
Book Synopsis Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined by : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Download or read book Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined written by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrifying idea of child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father is a theme which appears repeatedly in Western traditions. This book focuses on religious rituals of violence, imagined and real.