Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives
Horror and Redemption
Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23672-1 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23672-1 (ISBN)
Examining the theme of child sacrifice as a psychological challenge, this book applies a unique approach to religious ideas by looking at beliefs and practices that are considered deviant, but also make up part of mainstream religious discourse in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Ancient religious mythology, which survives through living traditions and transmitted narratives, rituals, and writings, is filled with violent stories, often involving the targeting of children as ritual victims. Christianity offers Abraham’s sacrifice and assures us that the “only begotten son” has died, and then been resurrected. This version of the sacrifice myth has dominated the West. It is celebrated in an act of fantasy cannibalism, in which the believers share the divine son’s flesh and blood.
This book makes the connection between Satanism stories in the 1980s, the Blood Libel in Europe, The Eucharist, and Eastern Mediterranean narratives of child sacrifice.
Ancient religious mythology, which survives through living traditions and transmitted narratives, rituals, and writings, is filled with violent stories, often involving the targeting of children as ritual victims. Christianity offers Abraham’s sacrifice and assures us that the “only begotten son” has died, and then been resurrected. This version of the sacrifice myth has dominated the West. It is celebrated in an act of fantasy cannibalism, in which the believers share the divine son’s flesh and blood.
This book makes the connection between Satanism stories in the 1980s, the Blood Libel in Europe, The Eucharist, and Eastern Mediterranean narratives of child sacrifice.
Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Exploring Religion
2. The Enlightenment View of Religion
3. The Satanism Craze: Looking at an Imaginary Religion
4. Proximal Explanations for the Satanism Craze: Social Context
5. Possible Genealogies of Recent Satanism Narratives
6. A Child Is Being Sacrificed
7. Sacrifice Fantasies
8. Human Sacrifice in West Asian Heritage
9. The Binding
10. The Binding of Jesus
11. In Remembrance of a Mythical Sacrifice
12. Genital Mutilation and Child Sacrifice Fantasies
13. An Infanticidal Impulse and the Oedipal Paradox
14. Conclusion: Back to the Present
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-23672-1 / 1350236721 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-23672-1 / 9781350236721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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