Sacrifice imagined
Subtitle: violence, atonement, and the sacred
By: Douglas Hedley
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781441110039; 9781441194459
Subjects: Sacrifice; Imagination (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The theophanic imagination, 'making sacred', and the sublime; title: Costly signalling or hallowed violence: explaining sacrifice?; title: Failed oblations and the tragic imagination; title: Thraldom, liberty, and licence: freedom and renunciation; title: Immolation, suffering, and the blood-stained logos; title: Responsibility, atonement, and sacrifice transformed; title: Metamorphosis and the pathetic divine: Dionysus and the crucified; title: The 'quire-musick' of the temple and the heavenly banquet.