Prey into hunter
the politics of religious experience
by Bloch, Maurice.
Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesizes a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence.
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Experience (Religion), Religion and civilization, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Violence, Sacrifice, Violence, Expérience religieuse, Gewalt, Symbolen, Religiöse Erfahrung, Aspect religieux, Religion et civilisation, Religion, Offers, Opfer, Politiek geweld, Rites et cérémonies, Offer, Riten, Ethnologie, Geweld, Sacrifice d'animaux, Violence, religious aspects| Edition | Availability |
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Prey into hunter: the politics of religious experience
1992, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521411548 9780521411547
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-113) and index.
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