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

Other author Kitts, Margo, 1952- editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Descriptionix, 344 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Martyrdom.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2017042779
ISBN9780190656492
ISBN9780190656485 hardcover
ISBN0190656484 hardcover
ISBN0190656492 paperback

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Joyner General Stacks BL626.5 .M369 2018 ✔ Available Place Hold