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Book review: On the Altar: A history of sacrifice from the sacred to the secular by Jonathan Sheehan

THE author presents this as "above all a history", but he pauses at the outset to explore the wider range of categories in which such a study might be placed, given the many ways and circumstances in which the "universal human desire to offer worl...

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