Sacrifice and sacred violence : history, comparisons, and the Early Modern world / edited by Cristiana Facchini, Girolamo Imbruglia, Vincenzo Lavenia and Sabina Pavone.

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PublicationTurnhout : Brepols, [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Description470 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
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Other author/creatorFacchini, Cristiana, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqM4MdqPb6tR9BTdvmtGb
Other author/creatorImbruglia, Girolamo, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDyq4xpWVC4BmrrKXvyV3
Other author/creatorLavenia, Vincenzo, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjhwp4XTjCvVxvxx7xxDq
Other author/creatorPavone, Sabina, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJc3MFVvGwt7twmtQ9xqwC
Included WorkContainer of (work): Bremmer, Jan N. Beginning and end of animal sacrifice in the ancient world.
SeriesStudies on philosophy, intellectual history, arts, sciences, 3041-6043 ;
Studies on philosophy, intellectual history, arts, sciences ; v. 2. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Part 1. Comparative perspectives. The beginning and end of animal sacrifice in the ancient world : some observations / Jan N. Bremmer -- Sacrifice, blood, and intention in early rabbinic literature : a critical reading of Mira Balberg's Blood for thought / Federico Dal Bo -- The sacrificial dimension of martyrdom in Sunni Islam : some observation on the theme in classical sources / Roberta Denaro -- "Every little boy is taken as a pledge against his sacrifice at birth" : ʻAqīqa and its functioning in a late medieval handbook on raising good Muslim children / Caterina Bori -- Not only to heaven and earth : logics of "sacrifice" in Japan / Chiara Ghidini -- Part 2. Religion and politics. Atonement and sacrifice : early debates and classical theories / Cristiana Facchini -- Sacrifice and idolatry / Daniel Barbu -- Hugo Grotius' Christology : the sacrifice of Christ across his religious and political works / Francesco Quatrini & Freya Sierhuis -- Where did sacrifice go? : the case of Thomas Hobbes / Robert Yelle -- Part 3. Sacrifice, martyrdom, and holiness. Unoffered pain : the troubled origins of sacrificial martyrdom / Emiliano R. Urciuoli -- Sacrifice, sanctity, and martyrdom / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- Self-sacrifice in the ordinary duty : Early Modern martyrial culture hagiographical rhetoric in Mathias Tanner's Societas Iesu apostolorum imitatrix (1694) / Franco Motta -- Part 4. Christian readings on sacrifice in the global sphere. Ritual killings amongst the Tupinambá and the Christian concept of sacrifice in Early Modernity / Maria Berbara -- Staging sacrifice : De Bry's pictorial representation of Javanese women self-immolation / Paola von Wyss-Giacosa -- Martyrdom and sacred violence in seventeenth and eighteenth century China / Ronnie Po-chia Hsia -- Save the body to save the soul : interpreting sati in Jesuit missionary sources / Sabina Pavone -- Discourses of religion and sacrifice in Sub-Saharan West Africa, c. 1500-c. 1700 / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Part 5. Sacrifice and sacred violence. Reframing holy war and sacrifice at the close of the Middle Ages : crusading treatises in comparison / Irene Bueno -- Why commit self-sacrifice? : martyrdom and civic heroism in Strasbourg (1529-30) / Olivier Christin -- Nationalism, sacrifice, and violence in the narrative of Italian Catholics on the Ulster question / Lucia Ceci.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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