Sacrifice and modern thought / edited by Julia Meszaros and Johannes Zachhuber.
Contributor(s): Meszaros, Julia T. (Julia Theresa)
| Zachhuber, Johannes
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: First Edition published in 2013Description: viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199659289; 0199659281Subject(s): SacrificeBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-270) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL570 .S23 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903489751 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-270) and index.
Introduction / Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Meszaros -- Modern discourse on sacrifice and its theological background / Johannes Zachhuber -- Sacrifice as self-destructive 'love': why autonomy should still matter to feminists / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Sacrifice, atonement, and renewal: intersections between Girard, Kristeva, and Balthasar / Paul S. Fiddes -- Sacrifice and the self / Julia Meszaros -- Sacrificial cults as 'the mysterious centre of every religion': a Girardian assessment of Aby Warburg's theory of religon / Wolfgang Palaver -- From slaughtered lambs to dedicated lives: sacrifice as value-bestowal / Jessica Frazier -- Sacrifice as refusal / Gavin Flood -- Sacrifice in recent Roman Catholic thought: from paradox to polarity, and back again? / Philip McCosker -- Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice / Nick Allen -- The Aztec sacrificial complex / Laura Rival -- Human sacrifice and two imaginative worlds, Aztec and Christian: finding God in evil / David Brown -- Blood sacrifice as a symbol of the paradigmatic other: the debate about Ebó-rituals in the Americas / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Apocalypse and sacrifice in modern film: American exceptionalism and a Scandinavian alternative / Jon Pahl -- Human sacrifice and the literary imagination / Derek Hughes.