Martyrdom and Terrorism

Name: Martyrdom and Terrorism
Brand: Oxford University Press USA
SKU: 9780199959877
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Dominic Janes, Alex Houen · ISBN 9780199959877

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Publisher	Oxford University Press USA
Author(s)	Dominic Janes / Alex Houen
Subtitle	Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Published	3rd July 2014
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Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives

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. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "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 history. The essays of this volume illuminate this history--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 among Islamic, Christian, and secular traditions. Featuring essays from eminent scholars in a wide range of disciplines, Martyrdom and Terrorism 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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