Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation

Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation

Religious Perspectives on Suicide

Oxford University Press Inc

06/2018

360

Mole

Inglês

9780190656492

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction: On Death, Religion, and Rubrics for Suicide Margo Kitts 2. To Die For: The Evolution of Early Jewish Martyrdom Shmuel Shepkaru 3. Performing Christian Martyrdoms Gail Streete 4. Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide: The Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate Catherine Wessinger 5. Martyrdom and its Contestations in the Formative Period of Islam Asma Afsaruddin 6. The Death of Musa al- Kazim (d. 184/799): Knowledge and Suicide in Early Twelver Shi'ism Najam Haider 7. Apologia for Suicide: Martyrdom in Contemporary Jihadist Discourse Mohammed M. Hafez 8. Hindu Ascetic Death Mary Storm 9. Sati David Brick 10. Dying Heroically: Jainism and the Ritual Fast to Death Anne Vallely 11. The Tropics of Heroic Death: Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition Louis E. Fenech 12. The Meanings of Sacrifice: The LTTE, Suicide, and the Limits of the Religion Question Benjamin Schonthal 13. To Extract the Essence from this Essenceless Body: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Immolation in Indian Buddhism Reiko Ohnuma 14. Reflection on Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Traditions Jimmy Yu 15. Relinquishing the Body to Reach the Pure Land: Buddhist Ascetic Suicide in Premodern Japan Jacquelyn I. Stone
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