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Sacrifice : The Qur‘an
954 words, approx. 3 pages
Sacrifice is a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain or restore the relationship of a human being to the sacred order. In its original usage sacrifice denoted only a religious practice, however, over...
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Sacrifice As Practice : Social and Cultural Anthropology
541 words, approx. 2 pages
In order to avoid prejudicing the discussion of sacrifice by what it has come to mean in Christian theology, we will do better to use a concrete definition focusing on ritual practices rather than on exegesis. In his ethnography of a tribal religion in...
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Sacrifice : Judaic Terms
194 words, approx. 1 pages
Offering to *God. Worship in the *Temple in *Jerusalem centred round the offering of sacrifices. *Sin offerings were made by the priests on the *festivals as a propitiation for the nation’s *sin and were also made for individuals (see *TRESPASS...
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Sacrifice Proverbs : World Proverbs
32 words, approx. 1 pages
Personal affections must be sacrificed for the greater cause. (Chinese) The sacrifice of an ox will not bring us all we want. (Roman) To obey is better than sacrifice. (the...
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Sacrifice Information
4,118 words, approx. 14 pages
Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an...
 


Quotations
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Sacrifice Quotes
464 words, approx. 2 pages
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human...


News and Journals
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Investor's Business Daily
Human Sacrifices
3/15/2007: 622 words, approx. 2 pages
Global Warming: A noted Canadian climatologist gets death threats for refusing to embrace climate-change orthodoxy -- what Czech President Vaclav Klaus calls a "religion." Will skeptics suffer the fate of Galileo?In 1633, Galileo Galilei was indicted by the church "for holding as true a false...
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The New York Observer
War and Non-Sacrifice
5/28/2006: 259 words, approx. 1 pages
Roscoe Bartlett, the 80-year-old Maryland congressman/seer who is trying to bring our attention to the coming crisis in oil supplies, a crisis of which the recent gas-price increases (which demagogues like Barbara Boxer would prefer to regard as price-gouging) are a mere foretaste. My job...
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AP News
Ancient sect marks Passover sacrifice
5/1/2007: 299 words, approx. 1 pages
Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime Passover sacrifice.The entire Samaritan community, which totals just over 700 people, was...
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Europe may have had human sacrifices
6/13/2007: 544 words, approx. 2 pages
Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe show that the region's population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study.The large number of multiple-burial sites, some containing skeletons of dwarfs and deformed children accompanied by ornate grave goods, suggests that human sacrifice...
 


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