Topic: 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
Religious sacrifices across various cultures and contexts sparked widespread interest in Early Modern Europe. As Christianity expanded into regions inhabited by "infidels" and "pagans", Europeans encountered a diverse array of sacrificial customs, ranging from the Sati rituals in India to the Aztec sacrifices in the Americas. This cross-cultural exposure captivated a wide audience, including theologians, philosophers, political thinkers, antiquarians, orientalists, missionaries, poets, artists, and even the general public. These encounters broadened the European understanding of sacrifice and led to a critical reassessment of classical and biblical sacrificial rites. This section includes:
- Sources: A selection of early modern printed materials, which include descriptions of the Americas, Asia, and Africa, alongside antiquarian and philological studies on religious sacrifice in classical antiquity and beyond. It also presents early modern works of ethnological observations and the first attempts to compare different sacrificial practices in various traditions and contexts, laying the groundwork for disciplines like the history of religions and anthropology.
- Iconographic Representations: A rich collection of images from the 16th to 18th centuries, illustrating a range of sacrificial rituals and practices as seen in different cultural and geographical contexts.
- Related Bibliography: An extensive bibliography spanning scholarly works from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing contemporary analyses and interpretations of these early studies and observations.
Abraham’s sacrifice of his son and related issue
in: Der Islam, v. 67 (1990), issue : pp.243-277.
L'Histoire et la Religion des Juifs, depuis Jesus-Christ jusqu'à présent. Pour servir de Supplément et de Continuation à l’Histoire de Joseph
Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1707.
The Ainu bear sacrifice
in: From primitives to Zen: a thematic sourcebook on the history of religions, pp. 206-211
London: Collins, 1967 [1909].
The royall priesthood of Christians: an excellent treatise, wherein the nature of the priesthood, the function of the priests, and qualitie of the sacrifice is lively portrayed, for the sure building up of the faithfull professors of the gospell, in holinesse and sanctitie of life
London: T. Este for Thomas Man, 1605.
Genèse et évolution de la théologie du martyre dans l’Église ancienne
Bern - Berlin - Frankfur - New York - Paris - Wien: Peter Lang, 1991.
Iphigenia Sacrifice (1553)
Warburg Institute, London, Bartsch Collection (XV.261.43)
The sacrifice to Iphigenia (1553)
Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett
Saint Paul Enthroned [1515]
Opera della Misericordia, Siena
La part du sacré dans le signe magrébin: cas de la réécriture des récits de Youcef et du Sacrifice d’Abraham par la tradition orale
in: Revue Algérienne d’Anthropologie et de Sciences Sociales / Insānīyāt, v. (2009), issue 43: pp.55-68;119;122-123;127.
Globalized Religion: The Vedic Sacrifice (Yajña) in Transcultural Public Spheres
in: Asia Journal of Global Studies, v. 4 (2010-2011), issue 1: pp.21-34.
The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice
in: Sacrifice in Modernity : Community, Ritual, Identity : from Nationalism and Nonviolence to Health Care and Harry Potter, pp. 17-32
Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Women and Sacrifice : Male Narcisism and the Psychology of Religion
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992.
The Cool Knife. Imagery of Gender, Sexuality, and Moral Education in Kaguru Initiation Ritual
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
La Fête des Sacrifices en Berbérie
in: Cinquantenaire de la Faculté des Lettres d’Alger (1881-1931), pp. 87-125
Alger: Société Historique Algérienne, 1, 1932.
Sacrifice and Theory of Sacrifice During the ‘Pagan Reaction’: Julian the Emperor
in: Sacrifice in Religious Experience, pp. 101-126
Leiden: Brill, 2002.
Sacrifici cruenti e incruenti nei testi paralleli del Liber Linteus
in: Forme e strutture della religione nell'Italia mediana antica : 3. Convegno internazionale dell'Istituto di ricerche e documentazione sugli antichi Umbri, 21-25 settembre 2011, pp. 35-46
Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016.
«Ouvrir toutes les portes». Le sang sacrificiel chez les Gnawa du Maroc
in: Sacrifices en Islam: Espaces et temps d'un rituel, pp.
Paris: CNRS, 1999.