Sacrifice and Sacred Violence : History, Comparisons, and the Early Modern World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Facchini, Cristiana.

Contributor:

Facchini

Series:

Studies on Philosophy, Intellectual History, Arts, Sciences Series

Studies on Philosophy, Intellectual History, Arts, Sciences Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, 2025.

Contents:

Front Matter

Introduction. Cristiana Facchini, Girolamo Imbruglia, Vincenzo Lavenia, Sabina Pavone

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 Observations on the Theme in Classical Sources. Roberta Denaro

'Every Little Boy is Taken as a Pledge against his Sacrifice at Birth'. ʿAqīqa 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

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 &amp

Freya Sierhuis

Where Did Sacrifice Go? The Case of Thomas Hobbes. Robert Yelle

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 and Hagiographical Rhetoric in Mathias Tanner's Societas Iesu apostolorum imitatrix (1694). Franco Motta

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

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

Back Matter.

Notes:

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ISBN:

2-503-61276-8