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Sacrificing the self : perspectives on martyrdom and religion /
Though considered by devotees to be perhaps the most potent expression of religious faith, dying for one's god is also one of the most difficult concepts for modern observers of religion to understand. This is especially true in the West, where martyrdom has all but disapeared and martyrs in ot...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | AAR the religions (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Is there martydom in the Hebrew bible? / Marc Brettler
- Honor and sacredness in the Roman and Christian worlds / Carlin Barton
- Very special death / Carole Straw
- Murder and martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England / Margaret Cormack
- Revaluation of martyrdom in early Islam / Keith Lewinstein
- Contemplative death in Jewish mystical tradition / Lawrence Fine
- Martyrdom in Sunni revivalist thought / Daniel Brown
- Truth and sacrifice / Lindsey Harlan
- Self-sacrifice as truth in India / D. Dennis Hudson.