The Role of Sacrifice in the Secular Age

• Autres auteurs: Gil-Gimeno, Javier (Éditeur intellectuel), Beriain, Josetxo (Éditeur intellectuel), Sánchez Capdequí, Celso (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Sujets: Humanities; Social interaction; sacrifice; gift; victim; post-heroic; sacralization of the person; pilgrimage; sacred; festivals; Wagner; Bayreuth; Durkheim; opera; imaginary; violence; rituality; collective communion; late modernity; martyrdom; ETA; Yoyes; ethnography; psychoanalysis; cultural trauma; victims of terrorism; ritual; performance; expropriation; crisis; financialization; capitalism; sacredness of the person; self-sacrifice; exchange; relinquishment; secular religiosity; n/a
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The focus of this Special Issue is the analysis of the role played by sacrifice in complex secular and modern societies, in which, the concept of 'emotional self-restriction' (Freud, 201; Elias, 2009), as a keystone of civilization, has collapsed. Today, the old idea of sacrifice is supers...