Sacred Violence in Early America

by Susan Juster

Book Overview

Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. 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 wars of the Reformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224191
• ISBN13: 9780812224191
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.7"