Desiring Martyrs

Author : Harry O. Maier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311068263X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desiring Martyrs written by Harry O. Maier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.

Author : Harry O. Maier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110682710
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desiring Martyrs written by Harry O. Maier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.

Author : Elizabeth Anne Castelli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231129862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martyrdom and Memory written by Elizabeth Anne Castelli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising a wide range of early sources, this title identifies the roots of the concept of Christian martyrdom, as lloking at how it has been expressed in events such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

Author : Nathan S. French
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190092165
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And God Knows the Martyrs written by Nathan S. French and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition. While many studies sift through the biographies of these so-called martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labeled "suicide bombings," Nathan French argues that, through their legal arguments, Jihadi-Salafis craft a theodicy that is meant to address the suffering and oppression of the global Muslim community. Pulling from a broad selection of primary sources, including previously untranslated fatwas, on the subjects of martyrdom operations, jurisprudence, and political philosophies, French reveals that the Jihadi-Salafi legal debates on martyrdom reorient the basic objectives of the Shari 'a, focusing on maximizing the general welfare and promoting religion above all other concerns--including the preservation of life. Understanding this utilitarian turn opens the possibility for formulating a meaningful engagement and critique of Jihadi-Salafi legal interpretation and theories of warfare within a broader, just-war framework. And, as the jurists and propagandists of ISIS have demonstrated, this turn also opens the possibility for the use of self-renunciative violence as a means of state formation.

Author : Eva Elm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110632233
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demons in Late Antiquity written by Eva Elm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perception of demons in late antiquity was determined by the cultural and religious contexts. Therefore the authors of this volume take into consideration a wide variety of texts stemming from different religious milieus ranging from spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography and focus specifically on the literary aspects of the transformation of the demonic in this period of transition.

Author : David B. Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967828
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caravan of Martyrs written by David B. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the pathology of the “terrorist mind” or the “brainwashing” practices of terrorist organizations. In Caravan of Martyrs, David Edwards argues that we need to understand the rise of suicide bombing in relation to the cultural beliefs and ritual practices associated with sacrifice. Before the war in Afghanistan began, the sacrificial killing of a sheep demonstrated a tribe’s desire for peace. After the Soviet invasion of 1979, as thousands of people were killed, sacrifice took on new meanings. The dead were venerated as martyrs, but this informal conferral of status on the casualties of war soon became the foundation for a cult of martyrs exploited by political leaders for their own advantage. This first repurposing of the machinery of sacrifice set in motion a process of mutation that would lead nineteen Arabs who had received their training in Afghanistan to hijack airplanes on September 11 and that would in time transform what began as a cult of martyrs created by a small group of Afghan jihadis into the transnational scattering of suicide bombers that haunts our world today. Drawing on years of research in the region, Edwards traces the transformation of sacrifice using a wide range of sources, including the early poetry of jihad, illustrated martyr magazines, school primers and legal handbooks, martyr hagiographies, videos produced by suicide bombers, the manual of ritual instructions used by the 9/11 hijackers, and Facebook posts through which contemporary “Talifans” promote the virtues of self-destruction.

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.IT/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368871471
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

Author : Ingram Cobbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foxe's Book of Martyrs written by Ingram Cobbin and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Foxe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
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Download or read book Foxe's Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: