Sacred Violence in Early AmericaSacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violenceblood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasmto uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the wars of the Reformation were introduced