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978-0-8014-4150-9. The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought is a book by the political scientist Jesse Goldhammer that explores the purportedly sacrificial significance given to revolutionary violence during the French Revolution. [ 1] The work argues that revolutionaries who overthrew the Ancien Régime believed ...
Among the violent acts referred to are war, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, murder, rape, genocide, and criminal punishment. [2]: Introduction Violence is defined around four main areas: that which damages the environment, dishonest or oppressive speech, and issues of justice and purity. War is a special category of violence that is ...
Discrimination. Persecution of people with albinism (sometimes abbreviated PWA [ 1]) is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people hold supernatural powers. Such beliefs are present in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, and have been exploited by witchdoctors who use such body parts as ingredients in religious ...
Violence and the Sacred ( French: La violence et le sacré) is a 1972 book about the sacred by the French critic René Girard, in which the author explores the ritual role of sacrifice. The book received both positive reviews, which praised Girard's theory of the sacred, and more mixed assessments. Some commentators have seen the book as a work ...
e. In Jainism, ahiṃsā ( Ahimsā, alternatively spelled 'ahinsā', Sanskrit: अहिंसा IAST: ahinsā, Pāli: [1] avihinsā) is a fundamental principle forming the cornerstone of its ethics and doctrine. The term ahiṃsā means nonviolence, non-injury, and absence of desire to harm any life forms. Veganism, vegetarianism and other ...
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Capacocha or Qhapaq hucha[ 1] ( Quechua: qhapaq noble, solemn, principal, mighty, royal, hucha crime, sin, guilt [ 2][ 3] Hispanicized spellings Capac cocha, Capaccocha, Capacocha, also qhapaq ucha) was an important sacrificial rite among the Inca that typically involved the sacrifice of children. [ 4] Children of both sexes were selected from ...
v. t. e. René Noël Théophile Girard ( / ʒɪəˈrɑːrd /; [ 2 ]French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of philosophical anthropology. Girard was the author of nearly thirty books, with his writings spanning many ...