Prey Into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience

by Maurice Bloch

Book Overview

Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002LRDNIG
• ISBN13: 9780521423120
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"