Prey into Hunter : The Politics of Religious Experience
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
ISBN-10
0521423120
ISBN-13
9780521423120
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 17th, 1991
Print length
132 Pages
Weight
220 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.00 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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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.
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