“Mountains of Flesh and Seas of Blood”: Reflecting Philosophically on Animal Sacrifice through Dramatic Fiction

Despite recent moves among philosophers of religion to avoid undue abstraction by giving closer attention to religion’s practical dimensions, such moves commonly remain limited to a relatively narrow range of religious traditions. What D. Z. Phillips has termed the “radical plurality” of religious a...

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Main Author: Burley, Mikel 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 3, Pages: 806-832
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tagore, Rabindranath 1861-1941, Visarjan / Karnad, Girish Raghunath 1938-2019, Bali (African people) / Animal sacrifice / Religious philosophy
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
CH Christianity and Society
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