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La Violence du religieux

La Violence du religieux

Bloch, Maurice

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General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 2738104525
ISBN13: 9782738104526
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Apr 12 1997
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: French
Maurice Bloch, an ethnologist and professor at the University of Cambridge and at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, is well-known for his theory on rituals. He shows that human societies are worried about their permanence. However, this worry is incompatible with the reality of the human condition, which is characterized by sure death. Societies have thus all invented a world beyond, or beyond to this world. They have created a world of eternity and I'mortality. The function of the rituals is to organize the passage from the real world to the eternal world, thus periodically reaffI'ming the eternal quality of the social group.By taking examples from both primitive societies and from hightly developed societies such as Japan, he shows how eternal peace is paid for with violence, that is, the sacrifice of the I'dividual, which can go as far as putting him to death. This book offers an extremely original analysis of the relation between violence and religion.

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