Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined

Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Psychology

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Publisher's Synopsis

Fears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father appear repeatedly in Western traditions, starting with the Greeks and the Hebrews. In Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined, Beit-Hallahmi focuses on rituals of violence tied to religion, both imagined and real. The main focus of this work is the meaning of blood and ritual killing in the history of religion. The book examines the encounter with the idea of child sacrifice in the context of human hopes for salvation.

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Book information

ISBN: 9789004424791
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
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Language: English
Weight: 171g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 8mm