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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question.
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Homo Necans, Walter Burkert
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- 1992
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- Title
- Homo Necans
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Walter Burkert
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0520058755
- ISBN13
- 9780520058750
- Category
- Social sciences, Esotericism and Religion
- Description
- Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question.