Kathryn Mcclymond
Biographic Data
| ID | 1145993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Mcclymond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclymond |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLYMOND K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined. By Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
As Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi nears the end of Flesh and Blood, he asks, “Why do (some) people like to tell stories about parents killing their own children as part of a normative or deviant religious ritual?” (83). He is referring here to modern stories of alleged Satanic rituals that require parents to kill their children. He ultimately concludes that “modern delusions of SRA [Satanic ritual abuse] are mysteriously (or not) related to foundational …
Future of religious studies
As an academic community, religious studies scholars and educators are facing a significant challenge. In part, that challenge connects with challenges to the humanities more broadly. However, religious studies is not the humanities; many of us draw on social sciences or natural sciences methodology, and some of us are involved in multi- or interdisciplinary research. Our problem is much bigger than the crisis in the humanities. Religious studies…
"Sacrifice" in the Trump Era
This article examines public conversations about sacrifice involving Donald Trump, his supporters and his critics. The author demonstrates that Trump, as a candidate and while president, has used specific discursive strategies in defining, ignoring and denigrating sacrificial acts. These strategies, as played out in conversations about sacrifice, distinguish Trump from previous presidents, maintaining his position as a "Washington outsider" even …
Comparison as Conversation and Craft
This essay argues that comparison as a method of study within religious studies is best thought of in two terms: conversation and craft. As a conversation, comparison has its own history, which has included several major shifts. At present, comparative work would benefit from addressing the fact that Euro-Americans dominate the comparative conversation. This dominance limits conversational data, topics, strategies, and participants. At risk is th…
Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Rituals go wrong all the time - someone does the wrong thing, says the wrong phrase, or shows up late. Crucial ritual items go missing or get broken, or acts of God conspire to undermine the venue. Most of the time, these mistakes are smoothed over with substitutions or procedural adjustments, and the ritual goes forward. However, ritual theorizing has tended to focus on perfect rituals, rituals as prescribed in sacred texts. 'Ritual Gone Wrong' …
Negotiating Ritual Repair
The Vedic śrauta sacrificial tradition includes extensive discussion of the ways that Vedic rituals can go wrong and the procedures established to correct those wrongs. This chapter reviews Vedic priestly texts discussing ritual errors and reparations/expiations. It concludes that ritual theorists can learn several general lessons about the nature of ritual from the Vedic ritual correction (prāyaścitta) tradition. First, it challenges widespread …
Religion, Food, & Eating in North America
The essays collected in Religion, Food, and Eating in North America take on the subject of “religious foodways,” with the term “foodway” referring toa set of beliefs and practices that govern consu
The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
Research on balanced systems has sparked intense attentions due to their widespread engineering applications. Previous studies all considered that balanced systems operate in a single-source shock environment and the existing concepts of system balance are limited. Nevertheless, some balanced systems operate in more complex shock environment with multiple sources and new system balance requirements can be explored based on real engineering cases.…
When Rituals Go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice
Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Margins
The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual
After delineating several basic sacrificial activities in the context of the Vedic and Israelite traditions, the following essay makes three observations about the nature of sacrifice. First, despite the emphasis on death and violence in many dominant treatments, close study indicates that sacrifice is largely a non-violent activity. Therefore, it is inappropriate to focus on killing as a definitive or central element of sacrificial ritual. Secon…
Death be not proud: Reevaluating the role of killing in sacrifice
Comparison as Conversation and Craft
This essay argues that comparison as a method of study within religious studies is best thought of in two terms: conversation and craft. As a conversation, comparison has its own history, which has included several major shifts. At present, comparative work would benefit from addressing the fact that Euro-Americans dominate the comparative conversation. This dominance limits conversational data, topics, strategies, and participants. At risk is th…
Death be not proud: Reevaluating the role of killing in sacrifice
The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual
After delineating several basic sacrificial activities in the context of the Vedic and Israelite traditions, the following essay makes three observations about the nature of sacrifice. First, despite the emphasis on death and violence in many dominant treatments, close study indicates that sacrifice is largely a non-violent activity. Therefore, it is inappropriate to focus on killing as a definitive or central element of sacrificial ritual. Secon…
Death be not proud: Reevaluating the role of killing in sacrifice
The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual
After delineating several basic sacrificial activities in the context of the Vedic and Israelite traditions, the following essay makes three observations about the nature of sacrifice. First, despite the emphasis on death and violence in many dominant treatments, close study indicates that sacrifice is largely a non-violent activity. Therefore, it is inappropriate to focus on killing as a definitive or central element of sacrificial ritual. Secon…
Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice
Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Margins
When Rituals Go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity
Research on balanced systems has sparked intense attentions due to their widespread engineering applications. Previous studies all considered that balanced systems operate in a single-source shock environment and the existing concepts of system balance are limited. Nevertheless, some balanced systems operate in more complex shock environment with multiple sources and new system balance requirements can be explored based on real engineering cases.…
Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption
Rituals go wrong all the time - someone does the wrong thing, says the wrong phrase, or shows up late. Crucial ritual items go missing or get broken, or acts of God conspire to undermine the venue. Most of the time, these mistakes are smoothed over with substitutions or procedural adjustments, and the ritual goes forward. However, ritual theorizing has tended to focus on perfect rituals, rituals as prescribed in sacred texts. 'Ritual Gone Wrong' …
Negotiating Ritual Repair
The Vedic śrauta sacrificial tradition includes extensive discussion of the ways that Vedic rituals can go wrong and the procedures established to correct those wrongs. This chapter reviews Vedic priestly texts discussing ritual errors and reparations/expiations. It concludes that ritual theorists can learn several general lessons about the nature of ritual from the Vedic ritual correction (prāyaścitta) tradition. First, it challenges widespread …
Religion, Food, & Eating in North America
The essays collected in Religion, Food, and Eating in North America take on the subject of “religious foodways,” with the term “foodway” referring toa set of beliefs and practices that govern consu
Comparison as Conversation and Craft
This essay argues that comparison as a method of study within religious studies is best thought of in two terms: conversation and craft. As a conversation, comparison has its own history, which has included several major shifts. At present, comparative work would benefit from addressing the fact that Euro-Americans dominate the comparative conversation. This dominance limits conversational data, topics, strategies, and participants. At risk is th…
"Sacrifice" in the Trump Era
This article examines public conversations about sacrifice involving Donald Trump, his supporters and his critics. The author demonstrates that Trump, as a candidate and while president, has used specific discursive strategies in defining, ignoring and denigrating sacrificial acts. These strategies, as played out in conversations about sacrifice, distinguish Trump from previous presidents, maintaining his position as a "Washington outsider" even …
Future of religious studies
As an academic community, religious studies scholars and educators are facing a significant challenge. In part, that challenge connects with challenges to the humanities more broadly. However, religious studies is not the humanities; many of us draw on social sciences or natural sciences methodology, and some of us are involved in multi- or interdisciplinary research. Our problem is much bigger than the crisis in the humanities. Religious studies…
Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined. By Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
As Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi nears the end of Flesh and Blood, he asks, “Why do (some) people like to tell stories about parents killing their own children as part of a normative or deviant religious ritual?” (83). He is referring here to modern stories of alleged Satanic rituals that require parents to kill their children. He ultimately concludes that “modern delusions of SRA [Satanic ritual abuse] are mysteriously (or not) related to foundational …
Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Sacrifice (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)