Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies Kitts Margo
Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies Kitts Margo After over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the…
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Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies Kitts Margo
After over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the analytical utility of the notion writ large. Presuming it is people and places that are made sacred, we must question the dynamics. The word 'sacrifice' (Latin sacrificium) itself frequently is broken down into its Latin roots, sacer, sacred, and facere, to do or to make - to do or to make sacred - which is a huge category and also vague.
By offering gifts to them? Does sacrifice 'make sacred' by summoning the presence of gods or ancestors? By dining with them?
By restoring or establishing cosmic order? By atoning for personal or collective sins? By rectifying social disequilibrium through scapegoating?
By inducing an existential epiphany about life and death? While this short Element cannot cover all complexities and practices, it does treat critically
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