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.
Aspects of the ‘Interiorization’ of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition
in: Zoroastrian Rituals in Context, pp. 233-252
Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Le sacrifice rituel de l’Aïd el-Kébir: une tradition musulmane à l’épreuve de la République
in: Hommes & Migrations, v. 1254 (2005), issue : pp.104-112.
Sacrificio e misura del valore nella Grecia antica
in: Studi storici, v. 4 (1984), issue : pp.913-923.
Sacrificio e misura del valore nella Grecia antica
in: Sacrificio e società nel mondo antico, pp. 253-265
Roma - Bari: Laterza , 1988.
Substitution in Greek Sacrifice
in: Sacrifices humains: Perspectives croisées et représentations, pp. Online http://books.openedition.org/pulg/8163
Liège : Presses universitaires de Liège, 2013.
Livestock Symbolism and Pastoral Ideology Among the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush
in: Man , v. 22 (1987), issue 4: pp.637-660.
An Eighteenth-Century Account of Sati: John Zephaniah Holwell's ‘Religious Tenets of the Gentoos’ and ‘Voluntary Sacrifice’ (1767)
in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, v. 40 (2017), issue 1: pp.24-39.
Bringing the Gods to Mind. Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2005.
Seeing a global Islam? Eid al-Adha on Instagram
in: Cyber Muslims: mapping Islamic digital media in the internet age, pp. 176-178
: , 2022.
Il Simonino. Geografia di un culto.Con saggi di Diego Quaglioni e Laura Dal Prà
Trento: Società di Studi Trentini di Scienze Storiche, 2012.
I corpi sacrificali: smembramento e rimembramento. I presupposti culturali di Rom 12, 1-2
in: Atti del VII simposio di Tarso su S. Paolo Apostolo, pp. 437-468
Rome: Pontificio Ateneo Antoniano. Istituto Francescano di Spiritualità, 2002.
Isaac, Iphigenia, Ignatius. Martyrdom and Humand Sacrifice
Budapest - New York: Central European University Press, 2017.
Animal Sacrifice in ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC--AD 200
Oxford - New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Etnografia umanistica ne L'epistola sulla religione ed i sacrifici degli antichi prussiani di Jan Sandecki Malecki (Meletius)
in: Studia mythologica Slavica, v. 3 (2000), issue : pp.63-74.
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Sacrifice In The Rgveda (Its Nature, Influence, Origin and Growth)
Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1953.
Human sacrifices in India : substance of the speech of John Poynder
London: Hatchard and Son, 1827.
Dokumenti za katolicheskata deĭnost v Bŭlgarii͡a prez XVII vek.
Sofia: Universitetsko izd-vo Sv. Kliment Okhridski, 1993.
To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice , and Self-Divinization in Early China
Cambridge, Mass.: arvard University Asia Center,, 2002.