Prey into Hunter

The Politics of Religious Experience

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Hardcover | 16 December 1991

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Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesizes a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence.

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"Bloch presents a strong theory of human behaviour based on the discovery of a 'minimum irreducible structure which is common to many ritual and other religious phenomena.'...I appreciate his robust theoretical reason..." Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Initiation
Sacrifice
Cosmogony and the State
Marriage
Millenarianism
Myth
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Prey into Hunter

The Politics of Religious Experience

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