Desiring Martyrs

Author : Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110682632

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Desiring Martyrs by Harry O. Maier,Katharina Waldner Pdf

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 : Eva Elm,Nicole Hartmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110632231

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Demons in Late Antiquity by Eva Elm,Nicole Hartmann Pdf

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
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520967823

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Caravan of Martyrs by David B. Edwards Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5UIT

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Saints
ISBN : UVA:X000382385

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints by Alban Butler Pdf

Author : Nathan S. French
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190092177

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And God Knows the Martyrs by Nathan S. French Pdf

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 : John Foxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : OSU:32435067905943

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe Pdf

Author : John Foxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022425588

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The Book of Martyrs ... Including Every Important Relation in Fox's Book of Martyrs and Also All the Essential Parts of Every Work on the Subject which Has Appeared Since that Publication ... With Some Original Matter, Etc. [With Illustrations Including a Portrait.] by John Foxe Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Anne Castelli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0231129866

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Martyrdom and Memory by Elizabeth Anne Castelli Pdf

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 : John Foxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004872946

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Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe Pdf

Author : Diane Shane Fruchtman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630916

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Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond by Diane Shane Fruchtman Pdf

This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must move away from conceptualizations that require or center on death. After an introduction that traces the persistence of "living martyrs" as real objects of spiritual devotion and emulation across the span of Christian history and discusses why such martyrs have been overlooked, the book focuses on three significant authors from the late ancient Latin west for whom martyrdom did not require death: the Spanish poet Prudentius (c. 348–413), the senator-turned-ascetic Paulinus of Nola (353–431), and the influential North African bishop Augustine of Hippo (354–430). Through historically and literarily contextualized close readings of their work, this book shows that each of these three authors attempted to create a new paradigm of martyrdom focused on living, rather than dying, for God. By focusing on these living martyrs, we are able to see more clearly the aspirations and agendas of those who promoted them as martyrs and how their martyrological discourse illuminates the variety of ways that martyrdom is and can be mobilized (in any era) to construct new, community-creating worldviews. Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond is an important resource for historians of Christianity, scholars of religious studies, and anyone interested in exploring or understanding martyrological discourse. The Introduction of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : John Foxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022901112

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Fox's Original and Complete Book of Martyrs ... A new edition. Now carefully revised, corrected, and improved, by a Minister of the Gospel i.e. P. Wright ... Embellished with near 300 elegant engravings by John Foxe Pdf

Author : John Foxe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Church history
ISBN : OSU:32435073031072

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The Book of Martyrs, Or, Christian Martyrology: Containing an Authentic and Historical Relation of Many Dreadful Persecutions Against the Church of Christ, from the Death of Abel to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Being a Particular Account of All the Martyrs of the Old and New Testaments, and the Ten Great Persecutions Under the Roman Emperors, with the Persecutions Exercised by the Papists in England and Other Parts of Europe. Including Every Important Relation in Fox's Book of Martyrs, and Also All the Essential Parts of Every Work on the Subject which Has Appeared Since that Publication by John Foxe Pdf

Author : Alban Butler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547531593

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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler Pdf

"The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March" by Alban Butler. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Christian martyrs
ISBN : BSB:BSB10449779

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The Letters of the Martyrs by Anonim Pdf