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The Dark God: The Sacrifice of Sacrifice
Religions, 2021 The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure of a king, who was, at once, a priest and a murderer.
Joseba Zulaika
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Sacrificio del desiderio e matrimonio cristiano fra tardomedioevo e prima età moderna
Storicamente, 2022 The essay examines the positions of Catholic doctrine in the early modern age on the connection between sacrifice and sexuality. It was examined a body of moral literature characterised by different levels of specialisation and relative recipients ...
Fernanda Alfieri
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New Dalit Assertion and the Rejection of Buffalo Sacrifice in South India
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022 Taking a cue from the recent prevention of a buffalo sacrifice to a powerful local goddess in Karnataka and the writings of Dalit activist-turned-spiritual-guru M. C.
Aya Ikegame
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Dealing with a Crisis: Does Covid-19 Promote Traditional Gender Roles?
Psychologica Belgica, 2021 The Covid-19 crisis has many characteristics susceptible to emphasize gendered prescriptions. In the present research, we argue that the Covid-19 crisis should promote citizenship behaviors (CB) consistent with gender stereotypes.
Alyson Sicard +3 more
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Hooker's ideal code and the sacrifice problem [PDF]
, 2004 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] A common way of arguing against consequentialism is by a reductio ad absurdum, highlighting the fact that, in certain situations, we would be able to maximize well-being by sacrificing or scapegoating an innocent individual.
Lawlor, R.
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Le jaguar, sujet et objet du sacrifice maya
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2008 The jaguar, subject and object in Maya sacrifice. In Maya iconography, the role of the jaguar as a predator associated with all kinds of violence such as war, sacrifice, torture and self-sacrifice, is well-known.
Claude-François Baudez
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Biblical Subtexts as Arbiters for Ambiguous Passages [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019 This article sums up various arguments made in the author’s current and previous research of Biblical and Liturgical Subtexts in Dostoevsky. The more important an allusion to a sacred source is for Dostoevsky’s own message in any given work, the more ...
Olga Meerson
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Pelican: a Christian symbol Depicting the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ [PDF]
Bogoslovni Vestnik, 2023 Alongside with the legendary phoenix, which rises from death through the fire, and with the lamb, which expresses selfless love, the Pelican is one of the oldest symbols of Jesus Christ.
Remigijus Oželis
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Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2016 Sacrifice is an ancient and powerful idea, rich with contradictions. These days it can seem ubiquitous: from the rhetorical mobilizations of one war after the other, to the ideological pressures of austerity, to the "necessary" disruptions of life in neoliberal democracies, to the urgent adjustments demanded (and ignored) for a changing climate ...
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