Dying for faith religiously motivated violence in the contemporary world
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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London
I.B. Tauris
2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | Library of modern religion
6 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index Introduction : between death of faith and dying for faith : reflections on religion, politics, society and violence / Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin -- pt. I. Understanding religiously motivated violence -- Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity / John R. Hall -- Martyrs and martial imagery : exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence / Stuart Wright -- Violence and new religions : an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM--violence connection / J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley -- Of 'cultists' and 'martyrs' : the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation / Massimo Introvigne -- In God's name : practising unconditional love to the death / Eileen Barker -- The terror of belief and the belief in terror : on violently serving God and nation / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- pt. II. Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts -- Rituals of life and death : the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- The Islamic debate over self-inflicted martyrdom / Azam Tamimi -- The radical nineties revisited : jihadi discourses in Britain / Jonathan Birt -- al-Shahada : a centre of the Shiite system of belief / Fouad Ibrahim -- Urban unrest and non-religious radicalization in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence : a Zen Buddhist example / Ian Reader -- Jewish millennialism and violence / Simon Dein -- pt. III. Reporting religiously motivated violence -- Sacral violence : cosmologies and imaginaries of killing / Neil Whitehead -- Journalists as eyewitnesses / Noha Mellor -- Understanding religious violence : can the media be trusted to explain? / Mark Huband |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 222 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1441638318 9781441638311 |