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Sacrifice imagined : violence, atonement, and the sacred / Douglas Hedley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hedley, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sacrifice.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 248 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's pre-eminent philosophers of religion. >
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781441110039
- 1441110038
- 9781441194459
- 1441194452
- OCLC:
- 648934513
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