Desiring Martyrs
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Desiring Martyrs
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Author : Harry O. Maier
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Desiring Martyrs written by Harry O. Maier and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with History categories.
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.
Demons In Late Antiquity
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Author : Eva Elm
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Demons In Late Antiquity written by Eva Elm and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Caravan Of Martyrs
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Author : David B. Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Caravan Of Martyrs written by David B. Edwards and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with Christian saints categories.
The Martyrdom Of The Franciscans
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Author : Christopher MacEvitt
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-03-06
The Martyrdom Of The Franciscans written by Christopher MacEvitt and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-06 with History categories.
A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdom While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain by members of many different groups, martyrdom in a Franciscan context generally meant death at Muslim hands; indeed, in Franciscan discourse, "death by Saracen" came to rival or even surpass other definitions of what made a martyr. The centrality of Islam to Franciscan conceptions of martyrdom becomes even more apparent—and problematic—when we realize that many of the martyr narratives were largely invented. Franciscan authors were free to choose the antagonist they wanted, Christopher MacEvitt observes, and they almost always chose Muslims. However, martyrdom in Franciscan accounts rarely leads to conversion of the infidel, nor is it accompanied, as is so often the case in earlier hagiographical accounts, by any miraculous manifestation. If the importance of preaching to infidels was written into the official Franciscan Rule of Order, the Order did not demonstrate much interest in conversion, and the primary efforts of friars in Muslim lands were devoted to preaching not to the native populations but to the Latin Christians—mercenaries, merchants, and captives—living there. Franciscan attitudes toward conversion and martyrdom changed dramatically in the beginning of the fourteenth century, however, when accounts of the martyrdom of four Franciscans said to have died while preaching in India were written. The speed with which the accounts of their martyrdom spread had less to do with the world beyond Christendom than with ecclesiastical affairs within, MacEvitt contends. The Martyrdom of the Franciscans shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom accounts could at once offer veiled critique of papal policies toward the Order, a substitute for the rigorous pursuit of poverty, and a symbolic way to overcome Islam by denying Muslims the solace of conversion.
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Saints categories.
And God Knows The Martyrs
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Author : Nathan S. French
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-24
And God Knows The Martyrs written by Nathan S. French and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Religion categories.
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.
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2013-09-25
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with categories.
Foxe S Book Of Martyrs
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Author : John Foxe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Foxe S Book Of Martyrs written by John Foxe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Christian martyrs categories.
Victories Of The Martyrs
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Author : Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Victories Of The Martyrs written by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Christian martyrs categories.