Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice - Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond - Peter Jackson
6. The End of Sacrifice Revisited
Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice - Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond - Peter Jackson
Guy G. Stroumsa [+]
University of Oxford (Emeritus)
Guy Stroumsa is Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. Stroumsa
was the first Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at Oxford
University and Professorial Fellow at LMH from 2009 to 2013. Before that
he was Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Professor Stroumsa is a prolific writer with a wide
range of expertise in the Abrahamic traditions and has also made important
contributions to the Study of Religion in general as a human phenomenon.
Among his recent publications we find Le rire du Christ et
autres essais sur le christianisme antique 2006 and A New Science: The
Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason (2010).
Description
Besides rehearsing and developing some already familiar topics in this chapter, Stroumsa takes the opportunity to critically ponder the recent scholarly revitalization of Karl Jaspers’ concept of an Axial Age (Achsenzeit). This trend is particularly visible in the late Robert Bellah’s ambitious delineation of the early development of the world’s religious traditions in Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (2011).