Understanding religious sacrifice : a reader

Content: Preface
 General Introduction
 1 EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR: From Primitive Culture: Researches in the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Arts, and Custom
 2 HERBERT SPENCER: From The Principles of Sociology
 3 WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH: From The Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institution
 4 JAMES G. FRAZER: From The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
 5 HENRI HUBERT and MARCEL MAUSS: From Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function
 6 EDWARD A. WESTERMARCK: From The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas 7 EMILE DURKHEIM: From The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life8 SIGMUND FREUD: From Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics
 9 GERARDUS VAN DER LEEUW: From Religion in Essence and Manifestation: A Study in Phenomenology
 10 GEORGES BATAILLE: From The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy
 11 ADOLF E. JENSEN: From Myth and Cult among Primitive Peoples
 12 EDWARD E. EVANS-PRITCHARD: ""The Meaning of Sacrifice among the Nuer""
 13 WALTER BURKERT: From Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth 14 RENÉ GIRARD: From Violence and the Sacred15 JAN VAN BAAL: ""Offering, Sacrifice and Gift""
 16 VICTOR TURNER: From ""Sacrifice as Quintessential Process: Prophylaxis or Abandonment?""
 17 LUC DE HEUSCH: From Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach
 18 VALERIO VALERI: From Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii
 19 JONATHAN Z. SMITH: ""The Domestication of Sacrifice""
 20 ROBERT J. DALY: ""The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and Christianity""
 21 BRUCE LINCOLN: ""Debreasting, Disarming, Beheading: Some Sacrificial Practices of the Scyths and Amazons"" 22 NANCY JAY: From Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity23 WILLIAM BEERS: From Women and Sacrifice: Male Narcissism and the Psychology of Religion
 24 MAURICE BLOCH: From Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience
 25 JON D. LEVENSON: From The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity
 Postscript
 Selected Bibliography on Sacrifice
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