Sacred suicide / edited by James R. Lewis, University of Tromso, Norway, Carole M. Cusack, University of Sidney, Australia.
Contributor(s): Lewis, James R [editor.]
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TextSeries: Ashgate new religions: Publisher: Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: ix, 299 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409450863 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1409450864 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Death -- Religious aspects | Suicide -- Religious aspects | Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Islam | CultsDDC classification: 202/.3 LOC classification: BL504 | .S225 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Historical suicide cults -- The Sicarii suicide on Masada and the foundation on a national myth / Nachman Ben-Yehuda -- Religious mass suicide before Jonestown: the Russian old believers / Thomas Robbins -- Part II. Contemporary suicide cults -- Purification, illumination, and death: the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple / Henrik Bogdan -- Rhetoric, revolution, and resistance in Jonestown, Guyana / Rebecca Moore -- Individual suicide and the end of the world: destruction and transformation in UFO and alien-based religions / Carole M. Cusack -- Apocalypse in Uganda: the movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God one decade on / John Walliss -- Part III. Social-political suicides -- A sociological analysis of Muslim terrorism / Jan A. Ali -- So costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom: human bombs, suicide attacks, and patriotic heroes / Mattias Gardell -- Burning Buddhists: self-immolation as political protest / Katarina Plank -- Dying to tell: media orchestration of politically motivated suicides / Lorenz Graitl -- Part IV. Faux suicide cults -- Death by whose hand? Falun Gong and suicide / Helen Farley -- The Mount Carmel Holocaust: suicide or execution? / James R. Lewis -- Part V. Screen suicide cults -- Rescripting the past: suicide cults on television / Lynn S. Neal -- Why Muslims kill themselves on film: from Hollywood's racism to Girard's victimage mechanism / Christopher Hartney.