Introduction: Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice: A Religious Concept under Transformation
Abstract Sacrifice, originally a religious-cultic concept, has become highly secularized and used in various instances for different social phenomena. The current issue puts forward a selection of papers that offer insights into sacrifice and self-sacrifice and focus on the process of transformation...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Année: 2022, Volume: 8, Numéro: 2, Pages: 225-233 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Feminism
B Binding of Isaac (Akedah B Existential phenomenology B Gen 22) B Gender B Sacrifice B Self-sacrifice |
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Résumé: | Abstract Sacrifice, originally a religious-cultic concept, has become highly secularized and used in various instances for different social phenomena. The current issue puts forward a selection of papers that offer insights into sacrifice and self-sacrifice and focus on the process of transformation of the sacrificial individual. Three main axes put the concrete papers into a dialogue with one another: first, there is the philosophical-theological and gender reflection of the experience of the paradigmatic sacrificial story of the western tradition, i.e., the Akedah (Gen 22); second, the existential-phenomenological interpretation of self-sacrifice in the secular world which nevertheless aims to reveal a higher good – Freedom, Love, or the Good; third, the gender and feminist reflection of the motherly sacrifice of childbirth both in the religious-cultic context and in the secular context which presents childbirth both as a moment of autonomy loss and submission and a moment of women self-emancipation. |
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ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10062 |