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Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity: From Nationalism and Nonviolence to Health Care and Harry Potter Edited by Joachim Duyndam, Anne-Marie Korte and Marcel Poorthuis Publisher: Brill Publication Date: October, 2016 Language: English Format: Harback ISBN-13: 9789004332065 For information on ordering, please click here.

Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main characteristics of traditional sacrifice, are dynamics of our modern times as well which cannot be understood without sacrificial awareness.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity

Part I – Sacrifice and Community

The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice
Walter E.A. van Beek

Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community 
Theo W.A. de Wit

Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy’s The Sacrifice
Frederiek Depoortere

“Das Opfertier das nicht vergebens fällt”: The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin's Der Tod des Empedokles
Rebecca Prevoo & Joachim Duyndam

The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence
Saskia van Goelst Meijer

Part II – Sacrifice and Ritual

Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum 
Albertina Nugteren

Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor
Gerard Rouwhorst

Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919-2011)
Bart Wallet

Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter’s Self-Sacrifice
Sigrid Coenradie

Sacrificial Scripts: Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative
Grietje Dresen

Sacrificing Judith
Anne-Mareike Wetter

Part III – Sacrifice and Identity

Sacrifice and Islamic Identity
Abdelilah Ljamai

Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice
Claudia Mariéle Wulf

Self-sacrifice between constraint and redemption
Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis

Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement. 
Marjet Derks

Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics 
Inge van Nistelrooij

Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shusaku Endo
Sigrid Coenradie

The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Aqedah
Elliot Lyons

Epilogue

Fascination of Sacrifice
Kathryn McClymond

Bibliography
Index