Negative EcstasiesDespite Georges Batailles acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkersincluding Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthesand his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of