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Jan 2014
12m 13s

2. Sacrifice, Self-Destructive Love and ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr Pamela Sue Anderson talks to Tim Howles about her chapter 'Sacrifice as Self-Destructive Love: Why Autonomy should still matter to Feminists' In this interview, Dr Pamela Sue Anderson (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford) considers the concept of sacrifice through the eyes of ‘gender’, seeking to expose ... Show More
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5. Sacrifice in the Vedic Religions
Professor Gavin Flood talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Sacrifice as Refusal' In this interview, Professor Gavin Flood (Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Oxford) considers a number of theorists of sacrifice, including Freud, Girard and George ... Show More
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4. Human Sacrifice in the Mesoamerican Cultures
Dr Laura Rival talks to Tim Howles about her chapter 'The Aztec Sacrificial Complex' In this interview, Dr Laura Rival (Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) considers the phenomenon of human sacrifice in the Mesoamerican pre-modern ... Show More
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3. Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss and Sacrifice
Dr Nick Allen talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Using Hubert and Mauss to think about Sacrifice' In this interview, Dr Nick Allen (formerly Reader in the Social Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford) focuses on a short essay written in 1899 by two French scholars, ... Show More
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