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Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity - Couverture souple

Jay, Nancy

 
9780226395739: Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity
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ISBN 10 : 0226395731 ISBN 13 : 9780226395739
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.

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À propos de l'auteur

At the time of her death in 1991, Nancy Jay was a lecturer in social sciences and religion at the Harvard Divinity School.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226395731
ISBN 13 
9780226395739
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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