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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 20/11/1986
    ISBN13: 9780520058750, 978-0520058750
    ISBN10: 0520058755

    Number of Pages: 360

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

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