Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation

Religious Perspectives on Suicide
Herausgeber: Kitts, Margo

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation address the delicate subject of those elective deaths which can be categorized as religiously sanctioned suicides. Broadly condemned as cowardice across the world's moral codes, suicide under certain circumstances-such as martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation-historically carries a dynamic importance in religious legends, some tragic and others uplifting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9780190656492
• ISBN-10: 0190656492
• Artikelnr.: 49777615

Autorenporträt

Margo Kitts is a professor of humanities and religious studies at Hawai'i Pacific University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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