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Homo Necans

Homo Necans by Walter Burkert


Authors
Walter Burkert
ISBN
9780520058750
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
360
Dimensions
152 x 229 x 23mm

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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