Metamorphosis of the Sacrificial Victimization Imaginary Profile within the Framework of Late Modern Societies

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ID3376925
AuthorsAngel Enrique Carretero Pasin (0000-0002-2498-1291, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue1
Pages55
Publication date2021-01-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12010055
OpenAlexW3120476528
LanguageEN
References cited7

This article aims to unravel the why and the how of the imaginary profile of the emerging sacrificial victim in late modern societies. To do this, first, under the influence of the formulations proposed by the French School of Sociology, the nature and the functionality of an anthropological structure linked to a rituality of sacrificial victimization surviving in the historical course of western societies are investigated. Based on this, it analyzes the characterization of the imaginary paradigm of sacrificial victimization crystallized in modernity in contrast to the dominant one in the Old Regime. Finally, the sociological keys that would account for the unique morphology of the imaginary of sacrificial victimization that emerged in late modern societies are explored in the context of the generalization of a climate of violence that transforms any individual into a potential victim of sacrifice

Archaeology · Epistemology · Late modernity · Modernity · Psychoanalysis · Sacrifice · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

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