Prey into hunter: the politics of religious experience
Auteur :
Bloch, Maurice
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521411547
Date de publication :
17 oct. 1991
Dimensions :
23,7 x 15,9 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
334 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this book Maurice Bloch synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals inmany 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.