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Martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-immolation : religious perspectives on suicide / edited by Margo Kitts.

Contributor(s): Kitts, Margo, 1952- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: ix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190656485; 0190656484; 9780190656492; 0190656492Subject(s): MartyrdomDDC classification: 203/.42 LOC classification: BL626.5 | .M369 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : on death, religion, and rubrics for suicide / Margo Kitts -- To die for : the evolution of early Jewish martyrdom / Shmuel Shepkaru -- Performing Christian martyrdoms / Gail P. Streete -- Collective martyrdom and religious suicide : the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate / Catherine Wessinger -- Martyrdom and its contestations in the formative period of Islam / Asma Afsaruddin -- The death of Mūsā al- Kāzim (d. 183/799) : knowledge and suicide in early twelver Shī'̄īsm / Najam Haider -- Apologia for suicide : martyrdom in contemporary Jihadist discourse / Mohammed M. Hafez -- Hindu ascetic death / Mary Storm -- Sati / David Brick -- Dying heroically : Jainism and the ritual fast to death / Anne Vallely -- The tropics of heroic death : martyrdom and the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech -- The meanings of sacrifice : the LTTE, suicide, and the limits of the "religion question" / Benjamin Schonthal -- To extract the essence from this essenceless body : self-sacrifice and self-immolation in Indian Buddhism / Reiko Ohnuma -- Reflections on self-immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist traditions / Jimmy Yu -- Relinquishing the body to reach the Pure Land : Buddhist ascetic suicide in premodern Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL626.5 .M369 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903525927

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : on death, religion, and rubrics for suicide / Margo Kitts -- To die for : the evolution of early Jewish martyrdom / Shmuel Shepkaru -- Performing Christian martyrdoms / Gail P. Streete -- Collective martyrdom and religious suicide : the Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate / Catherine Wessinger -- Martyrdom and its contestations in the formative period of Islam / Asma Afsaruddin -- The death of Mūsā al- Kāzim (d. 183/799) : knowledge and suicide in early twelver Shī'̄īsm / Najam Haider -- Apologia for suicide : martyrdom in contemporary Jihadist discourse / Mohammed M. Hafez -- Hindu ascetic death / Mary Storm -- Sati / David Brick -- Dying heroically : Jainism and the ritual fast to death / Anne Vallely -- The tropics of heroic death : martyrdom and the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech -- The meanings of sacrifice : the LTTE, suicide, and the limits of the "religion question" / Benjamin Schonthal -- To extract the essence from this essenceless body : self-sacrifice and self-immolation in Indian Buddhism / Reiko Ohnuma -- Reflections on self-immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist traditions / Jimmy Yu -- Relinquishing the body to reach the Pure Land : Buddhist ascetic suicide in premodern Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone.

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