Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred

by Douglas Hedley

Book Overview

Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion.

Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441110038
• ISBN13: 9781441110039
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"