thanatolatry
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- than-ay-toe-lat-tree
Noun edit
thanatolatry (uncountable)
- (religion) The worship of death.
- 2000, William F. May, The Physician's Covenant: Images of the Healer in Medical Ethics (Medical), Westminster John Knox Press:
- They confuse Christianity with a thanatolatry and a dolorolatry, a worship of death and suffering.
- 2013, Arthur C. McGill, Dying Unto Life: Arthur C. McGill on New God, New Death, New Life (Religion), Wipf and Stock Publishers:
- What is going on here? Has not thanatolatry won the day—and the life? We must make an implied distinction between death as extermination, the stinging death of sin claiming worship dominative, demonic death, and death as, in McGill's words, “communicating expediture.”
- 2006, Laurent Murawiec, “Deterring Those Who Are Already Dead?”, in Hudson Institute[1]:
- This is thanatolatry, martyropathology or nihilism: when an entire society orients itself in this direction, that society is becoming suicidal.
- 1984, David Cain, “Cambridge University Press”, in Cambridge[2]:
- There is the negative thanatolatry of resisting death at all cost and so bowing before death's domination, before death as extermination.
- 2012, Kirby Farrell, “Eschatological Landscape”, in Research Gate[3], Brill:
- Following Leo Alexander, Ernest Becker recognized the importance of the Nazi “philosophy of blood and soil which contained the belief that death nourishes life”. In effect, this ancient pagan belief converts death-anxiety into “thanatolatry”, a belief in “death potlatch” by means of which death is thought to mystically replenish life.
Translations edit
worship of death
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