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Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (Paperback)
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Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (Paperback)
Series: The Study of Religion in a Global Context
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This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation
by inviting a selected group of specialists in the fields of
philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine
philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation - especially in
Ancient India and Greece - and consider the commonalities of their
historical raison d'etre. Scholars have long observed, yet without
presenting any transcultural grand theory on the matter, that
sacrifice seems to end with (or even continue as) philosophy in
both Ancient India and Greece. How are we to understand this
important transformation that so profoundly changed the way we
think of religion (and philosophy as opposed to religion) today?
Some of the complex topics inviting closer examination in this
regard are the interiorisation of ritual, ascetism and
self-sacrifice, sacrifice and cosmogony, the figure of the
philosopher-sage, transformations and technologies of the self,
analogical reasoning, the philosophy of ritual, vegetarianism, and
metempsychosis.
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