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Margo Kitts is Professor and Coordinator of religious studies and eastwest classical studies at Hawai’i Pacific University in Honolulu. She has authored 50 chapters/articles and edited or authored twelve books on religion and violence and/or ancient studies. Most recent of her books are Cambridge Companion to Religion and War (Cambridge 2023); Sacrifice: Themes, Theories, and Controversies (Cambridge 2022); Elements of Ritual and Violence (Cambridge 2018), and Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide (Ed. Oxford 2018). For updates see https://mkitts.netlify.app/.