Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies

by Margo Kitts

After over a century of grand theorizing about the universal dimensions to the practice of ritual sacrifice, scholars now question the analytical utility of the notion writ large. The word 'sacrifice' (Latin sacrificium) itself frequently is broken down into its Latin roots, sacer, sacred, and facere, to do or to make - to do or to make sacred - which is a huge category and also vague. Presuming it is people and places that are made sacred, we must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108995519
• ISBN13: 9781108995511
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"