Rick Talbott teaches Religion at the University of California at Los Angeles and California State University, Northridge.
""Sacred Sacrifice"" is a much needed contribution to the discussion of ritual. Ritual behavior is a relatively novel subject in religio-historical and anthropological discussion. What makes the present book so important is that it does not get bogged down in external, theoretical jargon, but presents vividly what is actually expressed in the ritual acts performed. Many a reader will say: 'This is a curious book!' It is indeed curious in the sense of it being ""remarkably different from uncritically accepted fashions"". It is at odds with current, indeed 'politically correct' fads in the Social Sciences and in the Churches. As a result, it touches in a refreshing new way on central issues of Hinduism and Christianity at the same time. Can Jesus Christ be compared to other mediators? Can God become man if we don't know what man is? Can we understand anything of human life without knowing about any sort of meditation? The reader confronts all those issues thanks to Professor Talbott's careful reading of the texts. And after all this, are we all going to agree? Of course not! But we cannot ignore this very new stimulus."" Kees W. Bolle Read College
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