Full name: Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

Author: Walter Burkert Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Anthology, Non Fiction, Religion, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780520058750 0520058755

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study. Similar books: Greek Folk Religion by Martin P. Nilsson Greek Religion by Walter Burkert Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman Ancient Mystery Cults by Walter Burkert Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliade A History of God by Karen Armstrong The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal The Age of Faith by Will Durant After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Culianu The Sufis by Idries Shah