TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ivan Strenski
TI  - Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice
SN  - 9789047402732
AV  - BT263 .S77 2003
U1  - 291.3/4 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Leiden, , Boston: 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
N1  - Preliminary Material -- Public Discourse and Theory of Sacrifice -- French Sacrifice, Catholic Eucharist -- World without Theory, Amen -- Bringing Theory (and Theology) Back In -- Conspiracy/Theory and the Goodness of Society -- Imagining Sacrifice -- Epistemology and the Study of Religion -- Index
N2  - Are social scientific theories and confessional theologies of sacrifice equally well suited as public discourse about religion? The French liberal Protestant theologians of the 5th Section of the École Pratique and the French doyen of sociology, Émile Durkheim and his two main followers, Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, engage in a struggle over the proper approach to sacrifice in the public university. The Durkheimians argued that theological language and assumptions were inappropriate for this purpose because of their confessional allegiances. Another approach to sacrifice, free of confessional entanglements, was required. This is what Hubert and Mauss sought to provide in the Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047402732
ER  -