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Why does animal sacrifice persist in Eastern Christian societies? How has it “survived” religious criticism, modern secularism, and even state atheism? At the crossroads of history and anthropology and drawing on case studies from the Balkans and the Caucasus, this book explores the dynamics and controverses surrounding practices that have never disappeared but have adapted to social, cultural, political, and religious forces across time and space. Through grounded descriptions of ritual performances and in-depth analyses of sources, the book also proposes new critical approaches and conceptual perspectives on sacrifice.
Price: $171.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity
Publication Date:
19 November 2026
ISBN: 9789004770188
Format: Hardcover
Yulia Antonyan is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of History, Yerevan State University (Armenia). She is the author of more than 50 articles in anthropology of religion and social structures, the editor of several volumes and the co-author of Between the imperial and post-imperial: the development of the Armenian religious landscape throughout the 20th century (in Armenian).
Pierluigi Lanfranchi is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). He is the author of L’Exagoge d’Ezéchiel le Tragique (Brill, 2006) and the co-editor (with J. Verheyden) of Jews and Christians in Antiquity: A Regional Perspective (Peeters, 2018).
Olivier Givre is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University Lumière Lyon2 (France) and member of Institut Universitaire de France. He co-edited several volumes on the contemporary Balkans, including Les Balkans en transformation. Quatre variations : pancarte, passeport, argent, maison (collectif Balkabas, Karthala, 2025).
Pierluigi Lanfranchi is Associate Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). He is the author of L’Exagoge d’Ezéchiel le Tragique (Brill, 2006) and the co-editor (with J. Verheyden) of Jews and Christians in Antiquity: A Regional Perspective (Peeters, 2018).
Olivier Givre is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University Lumière Lyon2 (France) and member of Institut Universitaire de France. He co-edited several volumes on the contemporary Balkans, including Les Balkans en transformation. Quatre variations : pancarte, passeport, argent, maison (collectif Balkabas, Karthala, 2025).