The Role of Sacrifice in the Secular Age

• Other Authors: Gil-Gimeno, Javier (Editor), Beriain, Josetxo (Editor), Sánchez Capdequí, Celso (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: 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
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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...