Dying to Save: Child Sacrifice in the Harry Potter and The Hunger Games Series

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series feature the sacrifice of children in ways that reflect the lasting cultural fascination with sacrifice and participate in a wider contemporary conversation that both contests and inscribes the sacrifice of ch...

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Main Author: Williams, Jeffrey 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Saskatchewan [2018]
In: Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 75-86
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Rowling, J. K. 1965-, Harry Potter / Collins, Suzanne 1962-, The hunger games (Novel) (2008) / Child sacrifice
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B child sacrifice scholarship
B Harry Potter series
B Emmanuel Levinas
B Rene Girard
B The Hunger Games series
B postmodern theory on children's agency
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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