Sacred Violence In Early America (Early American Studies)

Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence--blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm--to uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the Reformation were introduced and ultimately transformed in the New World.

• | Author: Susan Juster
• | Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0812224191
• | ISBN-13: 9780812224191