Throughout Your Generations Forever Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity

Name: Throughout Your Generations Forever Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity
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ISBN: 9780226395739

ISBN-10: 0226395731

ISBN-13: 9780226395739

Edition: 1993

Authors: Nancy Jay, Karen E. Fields

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Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

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Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Social-Scientific Interpretation of Ritual



The Logic of Sacrifice



Sacrifice and Descent



Creating Descent through Fathers and Sons



Ashanti Sacrifice



Hawaiian Sacrifice



Sacrifice, Descent, and the Patriarchs



Sacrifice ans Social Structure in Christianity



Theories of Sacrifice



Conclusion



Sacrificial Calendars


Notes


Bibliography


Index