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.
Sacrifice in Modernity : Community, Ritual, Identity
in: Sacrifice in Modernity : Community, Ritual, Identity : from Nationalism and Nonviolence to Health Care and Harry Potter, pp. 3-14
Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Patimenti e morte di Simone Abeles, fanciullo ebreo di dodici anni tormentato, ed ucciso crudelmente da Lazzero Abeles suo padre in Praga il dì 21. di febbraio dell'anno 1694 perchè era costante nell'abbracciare la S. Fed
Firenze: Piero Martini, 1705.
Polpoikilos sophia, a compleat history or survey of all the dispensations and methods of religion, from the beginning of the world to the consummation of all things, as represented in the Old and New Testament shewing the several reasons and designs of those different administrations, and the wisdom and goodness of God in the government of His church, through all the ages of it: in which also, the opinion of Dr. Spencer concerning the Jewish rites and sacrifices is examin'd, and the certainty of the Christian religion demonstrated against the cavils of the Deists, &c.
London: Daniel Brown; Ionath[an] Robinson; Andrew Bell; Iohn Wyat; E. Harris, 1699.
THE ORIGINS OF THE RITUAL MURDER ACCUSATION AND BLOOD LIBEL
in: Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, v. 15 (1976), issue 4: pp.83-90.
The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Aeneas sacrifices at the tomb of Anchises, a giant snake winds around the altar (1688)
from: Peplus virtutum Romanarum in Aenea Virgiliano eiusque rebus fortiter gestis, ad maiorem antiquitatis et rerum lucem, communi iuventutis sacratae bono, aere renitens) (Nuremburg: J.L. Buggel, 1688), pl. 18.
Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum
Opferritus und Voropfer der Griechen und Römer
Kristiania: J. Dybwad, 1915.
I riti del costruire
Milano: Jaca book, 1990.
Zur Analyse des Sündopfergesetzes
in: Verbannung und Heimkehr: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Theologie Israels im 6. und 5. Jahrhundert, pp. 39-50
Tübingen: Mohr , 1961.
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16th-18th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
Edible Gods and the Anthropology of Sacrifice
in: Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic, pp. 139-182
Florence: Harvard University Press- Villa I Tatti, 2022.
Cultural resistance and the visual image : the case of Dura Europos
in: Classical Philology, v. 96 (2001), issue 3: pp.269-304.
Taming of supernatural entities and animal sacrifice. The synthesis of Tibetan Buddhism and local shamanistic traditions in Northern Sikkim (India)
in: Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines, v. (2019), issue : pp.http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/3915.
Slaughter
in: Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, pp. 54-56ONLINE: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-the-quran/slaughter-EQCOM_00186
Brill: Leiden, 2006.
La sunna du sacrifice: les recommandations d’Ibn al-Ḥāğğ al-ʿAbdarī
in: Revue des Études Islamiques, v. 50 (1982), issue : pp.251-255.
Il Culto del “Beato” Simonino e la Sua Prima Diffusione in Italia
in: Il Principe Vescovo Johannes Hinderbach (1465-1486) Fra Tardo Medioevo e Umanesimo: Atti del Convegno Promosso Dalla Biblioteca Comunale di Trento, 2-6 Ottobre 1989
Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 1992.