Ebook: Christ's subversive body: practices of religious rhetoric in culture and politics

Foreword / by Haun Saussy -- Introduction -- Christ's body versus Christ's image : the iconoclasm of Epiphanius of Salamis -- Corpus libri as Corpus Christi: subversion, alchemy, and the poetics of transsubstantiation in the Book of the Holy Trinity -- The world as Christ and representation, or Johann Caspar Lavater's practice of redemptive aesthetics -- Christ's vanishing body in Dostoevsky's Genealogy of ethical consciousness -- The scene of Christ, or the cinematic body of Pier Paolo Pasolini -- A "sacred enterprise" : Christ's body in the contemporary United States.