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 in Judentum, Christentum und Islam
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.
Des animaux et de leur traitement selon le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’Islam
in: Studia Islamica, v. 9 (1958), issue -: pp.31-48.
Confounding Blood : Jewish Narratives of Sacrifice and Violence in Late Antiquity
in: Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice, pp. 265-286
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Le Sacrifice d'Orphée
Paris: Jouve, 1926.
Tales from Trent: The construction of “Saint” Simon in Manuscript and Print, 1475-1511
in: The Saint between Manuscript and Print: Authors, editors, publishers, readers and the phenomena of sanctity on the Italian peninsula, 1300-1600, pp. 185-215
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Abdul Qadar and the sheep of ʿId al-Adha
in: Everyday life in the Muslim Middle East, pp. 274-275
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2014.
On scriptural essentialism and ritual variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco
in: American Ethnologist, v. 19 (1992), issue 4: pp.656-671.
On Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim Sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco
in: American Ethnologist, v. 19 (1992), issue 4: pp.656-671.
Martyrdom and Rome
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
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A forms of horse sacrifice amongst the 13th- and 14th-century Mongols
in: Central Asiatic Journal, v. 10 (1965), issue : pp.145-150.
Dismembered: Citizen Sacrifice in Rousseau's “The Levite of Ephraïm”
in: The Review of Politics, v. 81 (2019), issue 2: pp.231-253.
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Maistre's Theory of Sacrifice
in: Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence: Selected Studies, pp. 65-83
Montreal & Kinsgton - London - Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
El rito de las fadas, pervivencia de la ceremonia preislámica de la ʿaqīqa
in: Las prácticas musulmanas de los moriscos andaluces (1492-1609). Actas del III Simposio Internacional de Estudios Moriscos, pp.
Zaghouan: Ceromdi, 1989.
Opfer als Gedächtnis: Auf dem Weg zu einer befreienden theologischen Rede von Opfer
Münster: LIT, 2001.
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Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies and Spaces in Late-Antique Judaism and Early Christianity
in: Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium, pp. 201-230
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Ritual at the cutting edge: everyday animal slaughter as practice and symbol
in: Exploring Indian modernities: ideas and practices, pp. 189-208
Singapore : Springer, 2018.
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece
in: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, v. 87 (1983), issue : pp.299-320.
Sacrificial Slaughter and Dressing Up: Gender Articulations in Muslim Rituals
in: Religious Studies Review, v. 22 (), issue 3: pp.209-13.