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The Head Beneath the Altar - Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice (Paperback)
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The Head Beneath the Altar - Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series
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In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man.
And from man's sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world,
including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head
Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging
study of Hindu texts read through the lens of Rene Girard's mimetic
theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those
interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also
performs a careful reading of Girard's work, drawing connections
between his thought and the work of theorists like Georges Dumezil
and Giorgio Agamben. Brian Collins examines the idea of sacrifice
from the earliest recorded rituals through the flowering of
classical mythology and the ancient Indian institutions of the
duel, the oath, and the secret warrior society. He also uncovers
implicit and explicit critiques in the tradition, confirming
Girard's intuition that Hinduism offers an alternative
anti-sacrificial worldview to the one contained in the gospels.
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