Code: 04615506
Homo Necans
by Walter Burkert
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 q ... more
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English - Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 360
Publisher: University of California Press, 1992
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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.
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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology
209.93 zł
- Full title: Homo Necans
- Subtitle: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
- Author: Walter Burkert
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 360
- EAN: 9780520058750
- ISBN: 0520058755
- ID: 04615506
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Weight: 568 g
- Dimensions: 228 × 150 × 23 mm
- Date of publishing: 01. July 1992
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