TY - BOOK
T1 - Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity
T2 - From Nationalism and Nonviolence to Health Care and Harry Potter
AU - Duyndam, J.
AU - Korte, A.-M.
AU - Poorthuis, Marcel
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - 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. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
AB - 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. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
KW - sacrifice
KW - victimization
KW - postmodernism
KW - self-surrender
U2 - 10.1163/9789004335530
DO - 10.1163/9789004335530
M3 - Book editing
SN - 9789004332065
T3 - Studies in Theology and Religion
BT - Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden/Boston
ER -