{"product_id":"death-war-and-sacrifice-studies-in-ideology-practice-9780226482002","title":"Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology \u0026 Practice","description":"One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European \u003cbr\u003ereligion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays \u003cbr\u003ehis severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized \u003cbr\u003eprototypical Indo-European religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten over fifteen years, the essays--six of them \u003cbr\u003epreviously unpublished--fall into three parts. Part I deals \u003cbr\u003ewith matters \"Indo-European\" in a relatively unproblematized \u003cbr\u003eway, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in \u003cbr\u003edescriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While \u003cbr\u003eLincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain \u003cbr\u003ethe best available source of data for the topics they \u003cbr\u003eaddress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Part II, Lincoln takes the data for each essay from a \u003cbr\u003esingle culture area and shifts from the topic of dying to \u003cbr\u003ethat of killing. Of particular interest are the chapters \u003cbr\u003econnecting sacrifice to physiology, a master discourse of \u003cbr\u003eantiquity that brought the cosmos, the human body, and human \u003cbr\u003esociety into an ideologically charged correlation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart III presents Lincoln's most controversial case \u003cbr\u003eagainst a hypothetical Indo-European protoculture. \u003cbr\u003eReconsidering the work of the prominent Indo-Europeanist \u003cbr\u003eGeorges Dumézil, Lincoln argues that Dumézil's writings \u003cbr\u003ewere informed and inflected by covert political concerns \u003cbr\u003echaracteristic of French fascism. This collection is an \u003cbr\u003einvaluable resource for students of myth, ritual, ancient \u003cbr\u003esocieties, anthropology, and the history of religions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBruce Lincoln is professor of humanities and religious \u003cbr\u003estudies at the University of Minnesota. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Lincoln\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of humanities and religious studies at the University of Minnesota. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844128575762,"sku":"9780226482002","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6fc097f1-3342-4dd8-aee0-8a009d1d0e35.jpg?v=1737312172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/death-war-and-sacrifice-studies-in-ideology-practice-9780226482002","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}