Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acción de gracias por la sangre de los mártires -- Paul Claudel (1868-1955) -- Si tuvierais necesidad de un perezoso -- Gertrude Von le Fort (1876-1971). Letanías a la Virgen de la Paz…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acción de gracias por la sangre de los mártires -- Paul Claudel (1868-1955) -- Si tuvierais necesidad de un perezoso -- Gertrude Von le Fort (1876-1971). Letanías a la Virgen de la Paz…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sigrid Undset. Gertrud von Le Fort…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity / The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice / Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community / Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy’s The Sacrifice / “Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt”: The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin’s Der Tod des Empedokles / The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence / Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum / Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor / Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919–2011) / Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter’s Self-Sacrifice / Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative / Sacrificing Judith / Sacrifice and Islamic Identity / Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice / Self-Sacrifice between Constraint and Redemption: Gertrud von Le Fort’s The Song at the Scaffold / Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement / Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics / Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shūsaku Endō / The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Akedah / Fascination of Sacrifice / Bibliography -- Index…”