SACRIFICE AND TRANSFORMATION
VOLUME 3 NUMBER 2
Summer 1978
The idea of sacrifice as a making sacred has always been very much a part of Western thought. Today the word remains, but it is more often used in the political and economic sense of belt-tightening or of accepting inconveniences necessary for the common welfare; or even as a sort of trade-off or exchange. There is no other word to carry its primal meaning so it is necessary to restore the word to its original significance and bring it back into currency; for it is not only a word but a dynamic idea, as alive now as ever, although seemingly out-of-date. And it is also a paradox. --from "Sacrifice and Will" by Christopher Fremantle
ARTICLES
DIE AND BECOME: SACRIFICE IN THE POEMS OF RUMI
Annemarie Schimmel
From the wealth and variety of the Sufi poet's verse, a central theme emerges.
SUN DANCE: SACRIFICE--RENEWAL--IDENTITY  Joseph Epes Brown
A poetic distillation of the vision of the Sun Dance and of its universal significance. With previously unpublished paintings by a nineteenth-century Sioux artist.
THE PRIVATE GATE
A conversation with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.
ABRAHAM Adin Steinsaltz
Reflections evoked by the ultimate sacrifice in the tradition of the Midrash.
LIKE CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN THE SPRING Ivan Morris
The Japanese ethos and the kamikaze spirit.
ARCS: THE LOOM OF SACRIFICE
A tapestry of verses from the Vedas
THE FIRE AND ITS OFFERING
A sequence of photographs selected by Lee Ewing.
SACRIFICE AND WORSHIP Father Alexander Schmemann
SACRIFICE AND WILL Christopher Fremantle
TRIALS OF A TEACHER Robert A. F. Thurman
An early Buddhist master's attempts to transmit the meaning of the Dharma-sacrifice.
TANGENTS: Reviews
Schuyler Cammann on Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Rosemary Jeanes on the Sri Lanka Thovil
Susan Bergholz on "Creature Tales"
EPICYCLES: Traditional Stories from around the World
THE FISHER KING German
Retold by Ann Himler
ONE-HUNTER AND SEVEN-HUNTER Mayan
Retold by D. M. Dooling
THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA Buddhist
Retold by Paul Jordan-Smith