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Sacrifice imagined : violence, atonement, and the sacred / Douglas Hedley.
- Title
- Sacrifice imagined : violence, atonement, and the sacred / Douglas Hedley.
- Author
- Hedley, Douglas.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, c2011.
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- Description
- viii, 248 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781441110039 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1441110038 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9781441194459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1441194452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011031360
- OCLC
- 648934513
- SCSB-12153969
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library