Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives

Horror and Redemption

AvBenjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-04-20
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350236721

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Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion

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Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Recensioner i media

With QAnon the most visible agent, contemporary demonologies of politics, culture and gender are once again seeing satanic conspiracies behind and in everything. In this timely and erudite volume, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi explains the religio-historical background of these topics, analyzes factors in their recent dissemination, and gives a deep, psychoanalytical reading of central motifs.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgements 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 Sacrifice12. Genital Mutilation and Child Sacrifice Fantasies 13. An Infanticidal Impulse and the Oedipal Paradox 14. Conclusion: Back to the PresentReferences Index