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.. .For thinking about how sacrifice was re-interpreted in some specific religious traditions (obviously, the chapters do not wander beyond Indian, Greek, and early Christian contexts) -- philosophized, psychologized, subjectivized, and interiorized -- Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice is interesting and thought-provoking. --David Eller, Anthropology Review Database, 16 April 2016 [This] is an engaging book. The chapters are learned and well-written, and often dialogue with each other -- at least with some help from the reader, who in the process is stimulated towards more nuanced thinking about rituals of sacrifice. --Ingvild SAelid Gilhus, University of Bergen, Numen 65 (2018)

.. .For thinking about how sacrifice was re-interpreted in some specific religious traditions (obviously, the chapters do not wander beyond Indian, Greek, and early Christian contexts) -- philosophized, psychologized, subjectivized, and interiorized -- Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice is interesting and thought-provoking. --David Eller, Anthropology Review Database, 16 April 2016

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Peter Jackson is Professor at the department of History of Religions at Stockholm University, Sweden. His most recent book is The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle (2007). Anna-Pya Sjodin is Senior lecturer in the study of religions at Mid- Sweden University in the department of Humanities and affiliated researcher at Uppsala University in the department of Linguistics and Philology.

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