This study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.
This title proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies - the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from the trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, the book seeks to theorize this as yet undertheorized field. Taking as a po…
When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public's blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was…
La religione è la meno ovvia fra le realtà universali. Non è certo chiaro, infatti, perché in una prospettiva evolutiva la specie umana abbia sentito costantemente il bisogno di una costruzione così audace, la cui funzionalità per la sopravvivenza è tutta da dimostrare.Burkert a…
"State armies around the world commemorate their fallen soldiers through ceremonies of remembrance and ritual memory-making. But these "spectacles of mourning" are careful manipulations of affect, gendered and structured by the military to both acknowledge lives lost and reinfor…
