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Jan 2014
15m 38s

1. An Introduction to Sacrifice and Mode...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Dr Johannes Zachhuber talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Modern Discourse on Sacrifice and its Theological Background’ In this interview, Dr Johannes Zachhuber (Reader in Theology at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford) explains how modern, secular discourse about sacrifice still draws on theological ideas and, in fact, needs this ... Show More
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2. Sacrifice, Self-Destructive Love and Feminism
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) co ... 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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Jan 2014
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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