Ann Taves

One Life to Give

History & Biography

“This book paints a vivid and timely picture of the role that the idea of martyrdom played in our nation's revolutionary origins. Repurposed as a wartime ideal, patriots took up arms to resist a "tyrant" whom they were convinced represented 'a mortal threat to their liberty.' In doing so, they instilled a still potent--and potentially destabilizing--image at the root of American identity, that echoes down through our nation's history, including events of recent years.”

Work Useful to Religion and the Humanities

World Religions

“Ammon provides us with an engaging reconsideration of the roots of the comparative study of religion in light of anthropologist E. B. Tylor's debt to Catholic missionary-ethnographers, such as Lafitau, Acosta, Sahagun, and Las Casas.”