Instruments of immolation: Giorgio Agamben and the Eucharistic reformations of the sixteenth century

Throughout the Homo Sacer series, Giorgio Agamben takes seriously the political and philosophical significance of Christian ritual in his archaeology of Western political discourse. In Opus Dei, Agamben argues for the sacrifice of the Mass as the paradigm for the ontology of effectivity, an ontology...

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Main Author: Yoder, Klaus C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-64
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Agamben, Giorgio 1942-, Homo sacer / Agamben, Giorgio 1942-, Opus Dei / Catholic theology / Liturgy / Mass / Priest / Reformation
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
RC Liturgy
Further subjects:B Protestant Reformation
B Giorgio Agamben
B Martin Luther
B Eucharist
B Huldreich Zwingli
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