Category Archives: Ritual

pillars of salt

Posted on May 29, 2007 by bford

1 divine- Criminals were believed not to have only challenged the fundamental regulation of law but to have also challenged the sacred code of life that God preordained. By taking the life of a criminal they were accelerating the onset … Continue reading →

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Foucault

Posted on May 23, 2007 by mtt3e

Cruelty:  causing unnecessary and especially painful suffering.   This chapter suggests that the notion of cruelty has changed from the 1700s to now, and even from the 1700s to the 1800s.  It opens with a strikingly grotesque narrative from an … Continue reading →

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