Published in Open Theology
Sacrifice is mainly a patriarchal institution. Nancy Jay argued that sacrifice serves as a ritual supplement and replacement for natural birth, and attempts to establish the dominance and priority of descent through the father over descent through the mother. I demonstrate the cogency of Jay’s analysis across a number of traditions. My focus is not...
Published in Open Theology
Georges Bataille is undoubtedly a key reference for all relevant contemporary thoughts about sacrifice. This article attempts to follow his impulses and intuitions, which are often misunderstood because they are highly personal, provocative, and suggestive. The problem of sacrifice is approached in three concentric circles. The first presents a vie...
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the Hittite textual evidence (Anatolia of the 17th–12th centuries BC) for sacrificial cremation of animals or animal body parts. Besides several occurrences of Hittite verb warnu-, “to burn”, the Hurrian term ambašše “(something) that is burnt” is examined in context. Sacrificial cremation occurs d...
Prispevek predstavlja poskus razbiranja implicitnih in eksplicitnih mitičnih elementov v zbirki kratke proze Vlada Žabota Bukovska mati, kjer se protagonisti – sicer dediči moderne subjektivne zavesti, ki se je formirala v novoveškem romanu, v kratki prozi pa je še radikalizirana – znajdejo v neobvladljivem mitičnem svetu. Atmosfero tega sveta sest...
Published in Der Islam
The Qurʾān’s fifth sura denounces the killing of game during pilgrimage and decries the killing of innocent Believers. This juxtaposition reflects the intimate connection between right worship and proper social order, between cult and covenant, a connection that animates the entire sura. In particular, the sura suggests that if Jews and Christians ...
En la sección cosmogónica del Popol Vuh, tal como la interpreta Francisco Ximénez, se sugiere un enlace, a través del cangrejo, entre la primera montaña-tierra emergida de las aguas y la montaña donde fue sepultado Sipakna. Las características de Sipakna, de su hermano Kab’raqan y de su padre, Wukub’ Qaquix, indican que esta primera tierra no corre...
In the context of most studies about René Girard’s thought, it is commonly assumed that mimetic desire is Girard’s original idea about human desire as such. In this sense, mimetic desire would be Girard’s first discovery chronologically speaking. Likewise, it is also widely believed that Girard’s Anthropology and his theory about religion would lat...
Published in Personality & social psychology bulletin
Prosocial motivation is an important ingredient for satisfying relationships. However, individuals high in attachment avoidance-those who fear closeness and prefer independence-often display reduced prosocial motivation for their romantic partner. In two daily experience studies (Ntotal = 324), we examined whether feeling appreciated by a romantic ...
Greek gods had their allotted spaces where worship took place, designated temenos, "that which has been cut off", but even if such a plot was the property of the deity and circumscribed by particular rules, it was not exclusively frequented by the divine owner. Mortal visitors may have used a temenos just as intensively as a god did, but in a diffe...
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