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2019 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com Radical Sacrifice Restless Secularism TERRY EAGLETON Modernism and the Religious Inheritance Terry Eagleton pursues the concept of MATTHEW MUTTER sacrifice through the history of human Through a study of Wallace Stevens, thought, from antiquity to modernity, in Virginia Woolf, and other major writers, religion, politics, and literature. He sheds this thoughtful and provocative survey skewed perceptions of the idea, honing in of modernist literature explores how on a radical structural reconception that modernism understood the far-reaching relates the ancient world to our own in consequences of secularism for key fields terms of civilization and violence. of experience: language, aesthetics, Hardcover 2018 216 pp. emotion, and material life. 978-0-300-23335-3 $25.00 HC - Paper over Board 2017 336 pp. 978-0-300-22173-2 $85.00 & The New Cosmic Story Inside Our Awakening Universe & Before Religion JOHN F. 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Never before has a scholar translation from Stephen L. Cook offers a so exhaustively employed the contents new approach to these passages, which of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the service of detail God’s utopian temple and the end- reading Matthew. time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel. 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