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Martyrdom : Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives /
"The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. This book examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives of martyrdom and connects these with cross-cultural acts and practices of remembrance. Martyrdom appeals to the imag...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Collection: | Heritage and memory studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction / Jan Willem van Henten and Ihab Saloul
- The interaction of canon and history : some assumptions / Tobias Nicklas
- The changing worlds of the ten rabbinic martyrs / Yair Furstenberg
- 'Who were the Maccabees?' the Maccabean martyrs and performances on Christian difference / Jennifer Wright Knust
- Perpetual contest / Mieke Bal
- 'Martyrs of love' : genesis, development and twentieth century political application of a Sufi concept / Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
- Commemorating World War I soldiers as martyrs / Jan Willem van Henten
- The scarecrow Christ : the murder of Matthew Shepard and the making of an American culture wars martyr / Paul Middleton
- Icons of revolutionary upheaval : Arab Spring martyrs / Friederike Pannewick
- Yesterday's heroes? Canonisation of anti-apartheid heroes in South Africa / Jeremy Punt
- The martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in transformation : from Syriac Christianity to the Qur'ān and to the Dutch-Iranian writer Kader Abdolah / Marcel Poorthuis
- 'Female martyrdom operations' : gender and identity politics in Palestine / Ihab Saloul
- Hollywood action hero martyrs in 'Mad Max fury road' / Laura Copier.