The Sacrifice of Others

What I intend to discuss is an issue that has strongly marked the attempts to define religion as a comparative notion in the early modern age, at the beginning of the great encounter between the European conquerors, merchants, and travellers and the inhabitants of the faraway lands. In order to disc...

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Main Author: Ferrara, Marianna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Morcelliana 2016
In: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2016, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 607-628
Further subjects:B colonial discourse in early modern age
B History of religion
B letteratura odeporica
B Sacrificio
B History
B Stereotypes
B De Varthema, Lodovico
B Travel writing; History
B Travel writing
B discorso coloniale in Età moderna
B Idolatria
B Sacrifice
B Idolatry
B Ludovico de Varthema

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