Topic: 3. Sacrifice and politics (16th-18th Century)
During the transformative period of the 16th to 18th centuries, the notion of the State evolved into a nearly mystical entity, perceived as immortal and worthy of the ultimate sacrifice. This section delves into the complex interplay between sovereignty, resistance, and sacrifice, a theme explored by early proponents of political tolerance. It also examines revolutionary acts and regicide, viewed through the lens of sacrificial rites. This section includes early modern printed and iconographic sources, along with a comprehensive bibliography from the 19th to 21st centuries, providing a historical and modern perspective on this complex theme
The Oath of Brutus (1771)
Musée Municipal Frederic Blandin, Nevers
Heroic Death and Selective Memory: The U.S.’s WWII Memorial & The U.S.S.R.’s Monument to The Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
in: Re-Imaging Death and Dying, pp. 109-122
Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Un furieux désir de sacrifice : le surmusulman
Paris: Seuil, 2016.
From Crusades to Blood Libels to Expulsions: Some new approaches to Medieval antisemitism
in: Second Annual Lecture of the Victor J. Selmanowitz Chair of Jewish History, pp. 1-29
New York: Touro College, 1997.
Scholarship and the Blood Libel: Past and Present
in: Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (vol. 2), pp. 71-86
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Pyramids of sacrifice : political ethics and social change
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977.
Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Human Sacrifice and African American Muslims in the 1930s
in: Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur, pp.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Colloquium of the Seven About Secrets of the Sublime
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
The sacred defense: sacrifice and nationalism across minority communities in post-revolutionary Iran
in: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, v. 86 (2018), issue 3: pp.724-758.