Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity : from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter / edited by Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duyndam, Joachim, editor.

Korte, Anne-Marie, editor.

Poorthuis, Marcel, editor.

Series:

Studies in theology and religion ; v. 22.

Studies in theology and religion, 1566-208X ; volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacrifice.

Conduct of life.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2020

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main characteristics of traditional sacrifice, are dynamics of our modern times as well which cannot be understood without sacrificial awareness. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity / Joachim Duyndam , Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis

The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice / Walter E. A. van Beek

Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community / Theo W. A. de Wit

Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy’s The Sacrifice / Frederiek Depoortere

“Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt”: The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin’s Der Tod des Empedokles / Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam

The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence / Saskia L. E. van Goelst Meijer

Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum / Albertina Nugteren

Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor / Gerard Rouwhorst

Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919–2011) / Bart Wallet

Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter’s Self-Sacrifice / Sigrid Coenradie

Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative / Grietje Dresen

Sacrificing Judith / Anne-Mareike Wetter

Sacrifice and Islamic Identity / Abdelilah Ljamai

Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice / Claudia Mariéle Wulf

Self-Sacrifice between Constraint and Redemption: Gertrud von Le Fort’s The Song at the Scaffold / Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis

Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement / Marjet Derks

Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics / Inge van Nistelrooij

Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shūsaku Endō / Sigrid Coenradie

The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Akedah / Elliot Lyons

Fascination of Sacrifice / Kathryn McClymond

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004335530

9004335536

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004335530 DOI