Martyrdom and Terrorism

Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Janes, Dominic; Houen, Alex

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom, in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. Islam contains manifold concepts of martyrdom, some of which link "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the form of Christ's Passion or saints faced with persecution and death, but in the duty to lead a good and charitable life. In both religions, the association of religious martyrdom with political terror has a long and difficult legacy. The essays of this volume illuminate these legacies-following, for example, Christian martyrdom from its origins in the Roman world, to the experience of the deaths of "terrorist" leaders of the French Revolution, to parallels in the contemporary world-and explore historical parallels in Islamic, Christian, and secular traditions. Featuring essays from eminent scholars in a wide range of disciplines, Martyrdom and Terorrism provides a timely comparative history of the practices and discourses of terrorism and martyrdom from antiquity to the twenty-first century.

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This pioneering collection of essays explores the intertwined histories of martyrdom and terrorism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Christian and Islamic traditions of moral witness and debate over the justified use of militant sacrifice are situated in relation to the development of Western nationalism, with a particular focus on the French Revolution and imperialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199959877
• ISBN-10: 0199959870
• Artikelnr.: 40207422

Autorenporträt

Dominic Janes is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London. Alex Houen is Senior University Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Acknowledgments
* List of Illustrations
* Introduction
* Part I: Martyrdom and Pre-Modern Violence
* 1. Kate Cooper, Martyrdom, Memory, and the "Media Event": Visionary
Writing and Christian Apology in Second-Century Christianity
* 2. Asma Afsaruddin, Martyrdom in Islamic Thought and Praxis: A
Historical Survey
* 3. Susannah Monta, Rendering unto Caesar: The Rhetorics of Divided
Loyalties in Tudor England
* 4. Gary Waller, Kristeva's "New Knowledge": Terrorism, Martyrdom, and
Psychoanalytic Humanism: Insights from Two Early Modern Instances.
* Part II: The French Revolution and the Invention of Terrorism
* 5. Julia V. Douthwaite, Martyrdom, Terrorism, and the Rhetoric of
Sacrifice: The cases of Marat, Robespierre, and Loiserolles
* 6. David Andress, The Sentimental Construction of Martyrdom as
Motivation in the Thought of Robespierre, 1789-1792
* 7. Ronald Schechter, Terror, Vengeance and Martyrdom in the French
Revolution: The Case of the Shades
* 8. Dominic Janes, John Foxe and British Attitudes to Martyrdom after
the French Revolution
* Part III: Martyrdom, Terrorism and the Modern West
* 9. Guy Beiner, Fenianism and the Martyrdom-Terrorism Nexus in Ireland
before Independence
* 10. Akil N. Awan, Spurning "this Worldly Life": Terrorism and
Martyrdom in Contemporary Britain
* 11. Alex Houen, Martyrdom and Hostage Executions in the Iraq War: The
Cases of Kenneth Bigley and Margaret Hassan
* 12. Jolyon Mitchell, Filming the Ends of Martyrdom
* Select Bibliography
* Index