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oapen-20.500.12657-434702023-02-01T09:34:24Z Sacrifice in Modernity Duyndam, Joachim Korte, Anne-Marie Religion General bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main characteristics of traditional sacrifice, are dynamics of our modern times as well which cannot be understood without sacrificial awareness. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more. 2020-12-15T13:31:42Z 2020-12-15T13:31:42Z 2020 book 9789004335530 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/43470 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Brill Brill 103958 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789004335530 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Brill Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The shaping of community, performing rituals and the search for identity, three main characteristics of traditional sacrifice, are dynamics of our modern times as well which cannot be understood without sacrificial awareness. This is demonstrated in such areas as the German poet Hölderlin, Harry Potter, martyrdom, the Twilight Saga, the Japanese writer Endo, Tarkovsky, movies and more.
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