Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter /
Sacrifice in modernity : community, ritual, identity from nationalism and nonviolence to health care and Harry Potter / [electronic resource]
edited by Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (x, 358 pages).
- Studies in Theology and Religion, volume 22 1566-208X ; .
- Studies in theology and religion ; v. 22. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Sacrifice in modernity -- Community, ritual, identity / Part 1 -- Sacrifice and community -- The Kapsiki home sacrifice / Pro Patria Mori -- Sacrificing life in service of the political community / Self-sacrifice and the other(s) -- Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy's The Sacrifice / "Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens f�allt" -- The meaning of sacrifice in Friedrich H�olderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles / The nonviolent sacrifice -- The role of tapasya in nonviolence / Part 2 -- Sacrifice and Ritual -- Through fire -- Creative aspects of sacrificial rituals in the vedic-hindu continuum / Sacrifice in early christianity -- The social dimensions of a metaphor / Ritual slaughter, religious plurality and the secularization of dutch society (1919-2011) / Towards a grown-up faith -- Love as the basis for Harry Potter's self-sacrifice / Sacrificial scripts, blood values and gender in the twilight vampire narrative / Sacrificing Judith / Part 3 -- Sacrifice and identity -- Sacrifice and islamic identity / Sacrifice -- Action within a relationship: a phenomenology of sacrifice / Self-sacrifice between constraint and redemption -- Gertrud von Le Fort's The Song at the Scaffold / Religion, suffering and female heroism -- Transformations in the meaning of sacrifice in a catholic conversion movement / Self-sacrifice and care ethics / Animal substitution as a reversed sacrifice -- An intertextual reading of Genesis 22 and the animal stories of Shusaku Endo / The fruits of dissent and the operationalization of faith -- A midraschic reading of the Akedah / Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis -- Walter E.A. van Beek -- Theo W.A. de Wit -- Frederiek Depoortere -- Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam -- Saskia L.E. van Goelst Meijer -- Albertina Nugteren -- Gerard Rouwhorst -- Bart Wallet -- Sigrid Coenradie -- Grietje Dresen -- Anne-Mareike Wetter -- Abdelilah Ljamai -- Claudia Mari�ele Wulf -- Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis -- Marjet Derks -- Inge van Nistelrooij -- Sigrid Coenradie -- Elliot Lyons.
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 Holderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
9789004335530 9004335536 9004332065 9789004332065
10.1163/9789004335530 doi 9789004332065
2016042109
Sacrifice.
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern.
Electronic Books.
BL570
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Sacrifice in modernity -- Community, ritual, identity / Part 1 -- Sacrifice and community -- The Kapsiki home sacrifice / Pro Patria Mori -- Sacrificing life in service of the political community / Self-sacrifice and the other(s) -- Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy's The Sacrifice / "Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens f�allt" -- The meaning of sacrifice in Friedrich H�olderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles / The nonviolent sacrifice -- The role of tapasya in nonviolence / Part 2 -- Sacrifice and Ritual -- Through fire -- Creative aspects of sacrificial rituals in the vedic-hindu continuum / Sacrifice in early christianity -- The social dimensions of a metaphor / Ritual slaughter, religious plurality and the secularization of dutch society (1919-2011) / Towards a grown-up faith -- Love as the basis for Harry Potter's self-sacrifice / Sacrificial scripts, blood values and gender in the twilight vampire narrative / Sacrificing Judith / Part 3 -- Sacrifice and identity -- Sacrifice and islamic identity / Sacrifice -- Action within a relationship: a phenomenology of sacrifice / Self-sacrifice between constraint and redemption -- Gertrud von Le Fort's The Song at the Scaffold / Religion, suffering and female heroism -- Transformations in the meaning of sacrifice in a catholic conversion movement / Self-sacrifice and care ethics / Animal substitution as a reversed sacrifice -- An intertextual reading of Genesis 22 and the animal stories of Shusaku Endo / The fruits of dissent and the operationalization of faith -- A midraschic reading of the Akedah / Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis -- Walter E.A. van Beek -- Theo W.A. de Wit -- Frederiek Depoortere -- Rebecca Prevoo and Joachim Duyndam -- Saskia L.E. van Goelst Meijer -- Albertina Nugteren -- Gerard Rouwhorst -- Bart Wallet -- Sigrid Coenradie -- Grietje Dresen -- Anne-Mareike Wetter -- Abdelilah Ljamai -- Claudia Mari�ele Wulf -- Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis -- Marjet Derks -- Inge van Nistelrooij -- Sigrid Coenradie -- Elliot Lyons.
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 Holderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
9789004335530 9004335536 9004332065 9789004332065
10.1163/9789004335530 doi 9789004332065
2016042109
Sacrifice.
Conduct of life.
Civilization, Modern.
Electronic Books.
BL570