Sacrifice imagined : violence, atonement, and the sacred / Douglas Hedley.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Continuum, c2011.Description: viii, 248 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781441110039
- 1441110038
- 9781441194459
- 1441194452
- 203.4
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Book - 7-day loan | CYA Library Main Collection | 203.4 HED (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000011172 |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.