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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b3107620.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-113) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Initiation -- Sacrifice -- Cosmogony and the state -- Marriage -- Millenarianism -- Myth.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 117 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521411548".
- catalog identifier "0521423120 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1987.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1984 [i.e. 1987]".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "291.3/4 20".
- catalog subject "BL570 .B53 1992".
- catalog subject "Experience (Religion)".
- catalog subject "Religion and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Sacrifice.".
- catalog subject "Violence Religious aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Initiation -- Sacrifice -- Cosmogony and the state -- Marriage -- Millenarianism -- Myth.".
- catalog title "Prey into hunter : the politics of religious experience / Maurice Bloch.".
- catalog type "text".