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.
Sacred Violence in Early America
Philadelphia,: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Animal Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religion
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1976.
Le religieux sublimé dans le sacrifice du mouton : un exemple de coexistence communautaire au Liban
in: L'Homme, v. 37 (1997), issue 141: pp.83-100.
Du divin à l’humain, du religieux au social : les repas sacrificiels au Liban
in: Sacrifices en Islam: Espaces et temps d'un rituel, pp. 199-213
Paris: CNRS, 1999.
Eine wenig bezeugte Mit-Feier des muslimischen Opferfestes in Jerusalem: das “vor-Gott-Stehen wie in ʿArafāt” (taʿrīf)
in: Compar(a)ison , v. 2 (1994), issue : pp.91-108.
A Comparative and Evolutionary Perspective on Sacrifice and Cooperation
in: Mimesis and Sacrifice. Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, pp. --
London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
0. General bibliography (19th-21th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
Das antijüdische Ritualmordrelief von 1727 an der Wernerkapelle von Oberwesel und seine widerwillige Entfernung
in: Aschkenas, v. 30 (2020), issue 1: pp.37-60.
Ox-Slaughter and Goring Oxen: Homicide, Animal Sacrifice, and Judicial Process
in: Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, v. 4 (1992), issue 2/3: pp.249-278.
The Virgin Mary, Monotheism, and Sacrifice
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Nietzsche and the eternal return of sacrifice
in: Research in Phenomenology, v. 33 (2003), issue : pp.167-185.
Transkulturelle Imaginationen des Opfers in der Frühen Neuzeit Übersetzungsprozesse zwischen Mexiko und Europa
Berlin: Berlin Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2015.
Transcultural Negotiation in Early Modern Era Art? The Pre-Columbian Blood Sacrifice Bowl at the Foot of the Stone Cross in Cuernavaca, Me
in: The Challenge of the Object. 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, pp. 211-215
Nürnberg: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 2013.
St. Sebastian in Iberoamerica: Transcultural Negotiation on Body Images and Concepts of Sacrifice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
in: Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic, pp. 273-298
Florence: Harvard University Press- Villa I Tatti , 2022.
Transcultural Negotiation in Early Modern Era Art?: the pre-Columbian Blood Sacrifice Bowl at the Foot of the Stone Cross in Cuernavaca, Mexico
in: The Challenge of the Object. Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art , pp. 211-215
Nürnberg: Almuth Klein, 2013.
Imaginaciones transculturales del sacrificio en la pintura española del Siglo de Oro
in: Las artes y la arquitectura del poder. XIX. Congreso Nacional de Historia del Arte, pp. 2008-2015
Castellón de la Plana: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, 2013.
Pictorial Theories by Missionaries in Sixteenth-century New Spain: the Capacities of Hieroglyphs as Media in Transcultural Negotiation
in: Art in Translation, v. 8 (2016), issue 3: pp.283-313.