Sacrifice imagined : violence, atonement, and the sacred / Douglas Hedley.
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New York :
Continuum,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The theophanic imagination, 'making sacred', and the sublime
- Costly signalling or hallowed violence: explaining sacrifice?
- Failed oblations and the tragic imagination
- Thraldom, liberty, and licence: freedom and renunciation
- Immolation, suffering, and the blood-stained logos
- Responsibility, atonement, and sacrifice transformed
- Metamorphosis and the pathetic divine: Dionysus and the crucified
- The 'quire-musick' of the temple and the heavenly banquet.