sacrifice
Let an agent describe sacrifice as a religious practice neutrally with attribution to the traditions and to scholarship, distinguish its historical and contemporary forms, relay animal welfare and legal rules that apply to ritual slaughter in general terms, and avoid polemic or graphic detail.
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Concept What sacrifice is.
Definition
Definition and forms.
Definition
Definition.
- What is sacrifice in religious terms, and what forms does it take, as described by traditions and scholars? definition
- Is the question about religious sacrifice or the figurative sense of giving something up? boundary
Meanings
Meanings.
Meanings
Meanings.
- What meanings do traditions give to sacrifice, and how do scholars interpret it, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Traditions Sacrifice across traditions.
Living
Contemporary practice.
Living
Living.
- How is sacrifice practised today in Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Shinto and other traditions, in their own terms? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific rite? action
Historical
Historical practice.
Historical
Historical.
- What is known about sacrifice in ancient societies, including human sacrifice, from archaeology and texts? provenance
- Is the presentation free of graphic detail? boundary
Law Law and welfare.
Welfare
Animal welfare.
Welfare
Welfare.
- What rules govern animal sacrifice and ritual slaughter, and how do they balance welfare and religious freedom, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits ritual slaughter? action
Rights
Religious freedom.
Rights
Rights.
- How have courts treated sacrifice under freedom of religion? provenance
- Which entry fits freedom of religion? action
Study Scholarship.
Theories
Theories of sacrifice.
Theories
Theories.
- What theories of sacrifice exist in anthropology and religious studies, with attribution? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Sites
Archaeology.
Sites
Sites.
- How do archaeologists identify and interpret sacrificial sites? provenance
- Which entry fits ritual archaeology? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Korban Pesach, saisen, Taurobolium, builders' rites, Hota, Ebo, Apeswari sabha, Ohana, human sacrifice, conlativum, Sacred food as offering, Prasad
What it is Filled
A religious rite in which something of value, such as an animal, food, drink, objects or, in some historical societies, human beings, is offered to a deity, spirit or ancestor to honour, thank, appease or communicate with them; sacrifice has been central to many religions across history, is continued today mainly as animal or symbolic offerings, and is studied in anthropology and religious studies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent describe sacrifice as a religious practice neutrally with attribution to the traditions and to scholarship, distinguish its historical and contemporary forms, relay animal welfare and legal rules that apply to ritual slaughter in general terms, and avoid polemic or graphic detail.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Religious offering
- Wide range of forms
- Historical human sacrifice in some societies, studied as history
- Contemporary practice governed by law and welfare rules
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Describe a tradition's rites in sensational or polemical terms.
- Present one tradition's practice as the whole of sacrifice.
- Encourage or assist harm to people under any religious pretext.
- Help carry out animal sacrifice outside animal welfare and food safety law.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing material on the sacrificial practices of a living community.
May
- Describe sacrifice as a religious rite across traditions with scholarly sources.
- Explain how traditions such as Eid al-Adha regulate animal sacrifice today.
Moral aspects Filled
- Sacrificial rites are sacred to the communities that practise them.
- Animal welfare in ritual slaughter is a real and contested moral question.
Who is affected
- Religious communities
- Animals offered
- Readers and students
Owners Filled
Steward
The public: held in common; religious communities govern their own rites.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q628455 - registry parent class
- Q64534006 - registry parent class
related
- rite - a ritual act
- religious offering - the general category
- anthropology of religion - the discipline
- animal welfare law - for animal sacrifice
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.sacrifice
- Wikidata: Q179723 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179723)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Offering to a deity, spirit or ancestor within a rite
- Animal, food, object or symbolic forms
- Secular sacrifice in the sense of giving something up is a figurative sense
- Not a single object; an offering made at an altar, shrine or sacred place according to a rite.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain forms and meanings with attribution
- distinguish historical from contemporary practice
- relay legal and welfare rules in general terms
- present scholarly interpretations with attribution
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Polemic or sensational description
- Presenting one tradition as the whole
- Animal welfare failures
- Confusing historical with contemporary practice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Animal welfare and slaughter regulations, with religious exemptions in some countries
- Freedom of religion protections
- Public health rules for food offerings
- Heritage protection of sacrificial sites
Context of use required Filled
- Honouring, thanking or communicating with the divine within a tradition.
- animal sacrifice such as the Islamic qurbani and historical Temple offerings
- food, drink and incense offerings such as saisen in Japan
- symbolic and substitute offerings
- historical human sacrifice in some ancient societies
- building and foundation rites
- sacrifice in Vedic, Greek, Roman and other traditions
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q179723: sacrifice - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Sacrifice - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should animal sacrifice be a separate entry?
- How should legal rules be linked by country?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific rites from several traditions; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q179723/spec.json