Table of Contents

Johannes Zachhuber and Julia Meszaros: Introduction
1: Johannes Zachhuber: Modern Discourse on Sacrifice and its Theological Background
2: Pamela S. Anderson: Sacrifice as self-destructive love : why autonomy should still matter to feminists
3: Paul S. Fiddes: Sacrifice, Atonement and Renewal: Intersections between Girard, Kristeva and von Balthasar
4: Julia Meszaros: Sacrifice and the self
5: Wolfgang Palaver: Sacrificial Cults as the Mysterious Centre of Every Religion : A Girardian Assessment of Aby Warburg s Theory of Religion
6: Jessica Frazier: From Slaughtered Lambs to Dedicated Lives: Sacrifice as Value-Bestowal
7: Gavin Flood: Sacrifice as Refusal
8: Philip McCosker: Sacrifice in Recent Roman Catholic Thought: From Paradox to Polarity, and Back Againa
9: Nick Allen: Using Hubert and Mauss to think about sacrifice
10: Laura Rival: The Aztec Sacrificial Complex
11: David Brown: Human Sacrifice and Two Imaginative Worlds, Aztec and Christian. Finding God in Evil
12: Bettina E. Schmidt: Blood Sacrifice as a Symbol of the Paradigmatic Other: The debate about ebó-rituals in the Americas
13: Jon Pahl: Apocalypse and Sacrifice in Modern Film: American Exceptionalism and a Scandinavian Alternative
14: Derek Hughes: Human Sacrifice and the Literary Imagination

About the Author

Julia Meszaros is a postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of Leuven.

Johannes Zachhuber is Reader of Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford.

Reviews

This volume presents sacrifice as an enduring obsession of modern theory, whether in contradistinction to primitive rites or allusion to the tragically noble in war. This is a significant study for readers interested in the contemporary resonance of the cross and Eucharist given a 'riotously polyvalent' term (p. 133).
*David Robinson, The Expository Times*

A smart volume on sacrifice
*Michon M. Matthiesen, Journal of Theological Studies*

The book, I believe, succeeds in its aim to bring together and explore the interlocking endeavours of a diversity of scholarly views on sacrifice without imposing or even suggesting one underlying narrative, or more explicitly, an interpretative unity.
*Andrew O'Shea, Louvain Studies*