Professor Gavin Flood talks to Tim Howles about his chapter 'Sacrifice as Refusal'
5. Sacrifice in the Vedic Religions
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In this interview, Professor Gavin Flood (Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Oxford) considers a number of theorists of sacrifice, including Freud, Girard and Georges Bataille, in a comparative study of the idea of 'sacrifice as refusal' in the Vedic religions.
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