“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
…actions—transcendence, blood, moral judgment, shame—in which we live. (We “Western selves,” that is, whether we’re atheists or monks.) The religious, in this sense, is a framework for consciousness, the vocabulary we are given and out of which we think. Writing in a frantic, jagged zig-zap rhythm, reminiscent most of hip-hop in the ricochet play of off-rhymes and fast-ripped allusions, Krieger plumbs the visceral heart of Christian tradition—the b…
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