Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Jay, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226395731 ISBN 13: 9780226395739

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226395731
• ISBN 13: 9780226395739
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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