Topic: 0. General bibliography (19th-21th Century)
This section offers a curated bibliography on the concept of sacrifice from the 19th to the 21st Century. It includes a wide range of studies from theological, philosophical, historical, anthropological, iconographic and psycho-analytical perspectives. The collection, which includes books, journal articles and encyclopaedia entries, aims to explore the evolution and interpretation of sacrificial practices through modern and contemporary lenses, and to provide a theoretical framework for understanding sacrifice.
Reformations of the Body Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Martyrs’ Mirror. Persecution and Holiness in Early New England
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
The Bible, Violence and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of Sanctioned Violence
New York: Harper Collins, 1991.
Sacrifice and the Beginning of Kingship
in: Semeia , v. 67 (1994), issue : pp.73-92.
Political and Demographic-Ecological Determinants of Institutionalised Human Sacrifice
in: Anthropological Forum, v. 24 (2014), issue 1: pp.47-70.
Human sacrifice as social control through terror
in: Human Sacrifice and Value. Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective, pp. Chap. 16
London: Routledge, 2023.
Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam. From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Seventh-Twentieth Century)
Madison - Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996.
Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
Chicago - London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
Chicago - London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.