Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ivan Strenski

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 98.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacrifice--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Sacrifice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are social scientific theories and confessional theologies of sacrifice equally well suited as public discourse about religion? The French liberal Protestant theologians of the 5th Section of the École Pratique and the French doyen of sociology, Émile Durkheim and his two main followers, Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, engage in a struggle over the proper approach to sacrifice in the public university. The Durkheimians argued that theological language and assumptions were inappropriate for this purpose because of their confessional allegiances. Another approach to sacrifice, free of confessional entanglements, was required. This is what Hubert and Mauss sought to provide in the Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Public Discourse and Theory of Sacrifice

French Sacrifice, Catholic Eucharist

World without Theory, Amen

Bringing Theory (and Theology) Back In

Conspiracy/Theory and the Goodness of Society

Imagining Sacrifice

Epistemology and the Study of Religion

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-46786-X

9786610467860

90-474-0273-1

OCLC:

191942334

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047402732 DOI