The Singular Beast

Jews, Christians, and the Pig

Claudine Fabre-Vassas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

1999
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-10367-1 (ISBN)

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An exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans.

Claudine Fabre-Vassas is a research fellow at the Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique and teaches at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Carol Volk is a translator and Foreign Service Officer based in Washington, D.C.

One. An Anological Being One. The Red Men Two. Children's Stories Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses Two. From One Blood To the Next Four. The Jew's Sow Five. Red Easter Six. Old Jews, Young Christians Seven. The Little Jew Three. Christian Flesh Eight. The Return of the Pig Nine. Blood and Soul Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.9.1999
Reihe/Serie	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Übersetzer	Carol Volk
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-231-10367-0 / 0231103670
ISBN-13	978-0-231-10367-1 / 9780231103671
Zustand	Neuware