Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Introduction. Christianity and the Secular Imagination: Toward a History of Sacrifice 1
5. PART I IN THE BEGINNING
6. chapter 1 In the Archives of Ancient Sacrifice: Pagans, Hebrews, and Christians 23
7. PART II SACRIFICE AND THE DEEP TIME OF CHRISTIANITY, CA. 1450–1580
8. Introduction 61
9. chapter 2 From the Thesaurus to the Archive: Sacrifice and the Practice of Theology 65
10. chapter 3 Sacrifice Abandoned, Sacrifice Redeemed: Polemics in the Christian Archives 94
11. chapter 4 Polycarp’s Bones: Proving the Martyrs of the Sixteenth Century 129
12. PART III THE HETERONOMY OF CHRISTIANITY, CA. 1580–1685
13. Introduction 167
14. chapter 5 The Way of the Negative: Antiquarianism and the System of Sacrifice 171
15. chapter 6 Gods of Paste: Anthropology and the Sacrifices of New Spain 214
16. chapter 7 Kings and Martyrs: Sacrifice and the Seventeenth-Century Political Imagination 248
17. chapter 8 The Anthropology of the Atonement: Sacrifice and the Ceremonial Law in the Seventeenth Century 282
18. PART IV SACRIFICE AD SAECULUM, CA. 1685–CA. 1915
19. Introduction 321
20. chapter 9 The Enlightenment: Secular Experiments in the Sacrificial Imagination 325
21. chapter 10 The Deaths of Cato: Citizens, Kings, and the Republic of Enlightenment Sacrifice 370
22. chapter 11 The Heteronomy of the Secular: Sacrifice and the European Sciences of Man 414
23. Acknowledgments 449
24. Notes 453
25. Index 539