Editor: Chiara Petrolini
The Lord's Table : Eucharist and Passover in early Christianity
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
Crusade 2.0: the West Resurgent War on Islam
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2012.
The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion
Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic Press, 2018.
Sacrifice for Gods and Country: Practice and Theory
in: Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative, pp. 11–38
: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Brigands and Cruel Kings
in: The Oxford Handbook of Heracles, pp.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
The Tropics of Heroic Death: Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition
in: Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide, pp. 205–225
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Prints Crossing Genres: Sixteenth-Century Iconographies of Old World Martyrdom and New World Sacrifice
in: Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic, pp. 321-348
Florence: Harvard University Press- Villa I Tatti , 2022.
La lotta per il sacrificio
Roma: Bulzoni, 2013.
One yajña, Many Rituals. How the Brahmanical Ritual Practices Became the ‘Vedic Sacrifice’
in: Annali. Istituto Universitario Orientale Napoli, v. 76 (2016), issue : pp.166-198.
The Sacrifice of Others. South Asian Religious Practices in Early Modern European Vocabulary
in: Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, v. 82 (2016), issue 2: pp.607-628.
Vanificare il sacrificio. Una proposta metodologica a partire dall'India antica
in: Scienze dell'Antichità, v. 23 (2017), issue 3: pp.111-121.
Il rito inquieto. Storia dello yajña nell’India antica
Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2018.
Il dio Quetzalcoatl (1626)
from: V. Cartari - L. Pignoria, Seconda Novissima Editione Delle Imagini De Gli Dei Delli Antichi, 1626, p. 550
Quetzalcoatl
from: V. Cartari - L. Pignoria, Seconda Novissima Editione Delle Imagini De Gli Dei Delli Antichi, 1626, p. 557
Die flambierte Frau: Sati in European Culture
in: Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India, pp. 35-50
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Samson pulling down the column of the temple (1470)
from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle
The British Museum, London
The Sacrifice of Polyxena (ca 1470-1475)
from: The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (recto of 1889,0527.58): Pyrrhus (Neoptolemos) sacrificing Polyxena on the tomb of his father Achilles
British Museum, London
Spiritualization of Sacrifice in Paul and Hebrews
in: Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible, pp. 83-98
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Al-Qaeda and sacrifice: martyrdom, war and politics
London: Pluto Press, 2012.