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Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Immolation
Religious Perspectives on Suicide
Taschenbuch von Margo Kitts
Sprache: Englisch

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Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition treated in this volume, from ascetic heroes who conquer their passions to save others by dying, to righteous warriors who suffer and die valiantly while challenging the status quo. At the same time, there are persistent disputes about the concepts used to justify these deaths, such as altruism, heroism, and religion itself. In this volume, renowned scholars bring their literary and historical expertise to bear on the contested issue of religiously sanctioned suicide. Three examine contemporary movements with disputed classical roots, while eleven look at classical religious literatures which variously laud and disparage figures who invite self-harm to the point of death. Overall, the volume offers an important scholarly corrective to the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost.
Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation is perennially controversial: Should it rightly be termed suicide? Does religion sanction it? Should it be celebrated or anathematized? At least some idealization of such self-chosen deaths is found in every religious tradition treated in this volume, from ascetic heroes who conquer their passions to save others by dying, to righteous warriors who suffer and die valiantly while challenging the status quo. At the same time, there are persistent disputes about the concepts used to justify these deaths, such as altruism, heroism, and religion itself. In this volume, renowned scholars bring their literary and historical expertise to bear on the contested issue of religiously sanctioned suicide. Three examine contemporary movements with disputed classical roots, while eleven look at classical religious literatures which variously laud and disparage figures who invite self-harm to the point of death. Overall, the volume offers an important scholarly corrective to the axiom that religious traditions simply and always embrace life at any cost.
Über den Autor
Margo Kitts is a professor of humanities and religious studies at Hawai'i Pacific University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1. Introduction: On Death, Religion, and Rubrics for Suicide

  • Margo Kitts

  • 2. To Die For: The Evolution of Early Jewish Martyrdom

  • Shmuel Shepkaru

  • 3. Performing Christian Martyrdoms

  • Gail Streete

  • 4. Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide: The Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate

  • Catherine Wessinger

  • 5. Martyrdom and its Contestations in the Formative Period of Islam

  • Asma Afsaruddin

  • 6. The Death of Musa al- Kazim (d. 184/799): Knowledge and Suicide in Early Twelver Shi'ism

  • Najam Haider

  • 7. Apologia for Suicide: Martyrdom in Contemporary Jihadist Discourse

  • Mohammed M. Hafez

  • 8. Hindu Ascetic Death

  • Mary Storm

  • 9. Sati

  • David Brick

  • 10. Dying Heroically: Jainism and the Ritual Fast to Death

  • Anne Vallely

  • 11. The Tropics of Heroic Death: Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition

  • Louis E. Fenech

  • 12. The Meanings of Sacrifice: The LTTE, Suicide, and the Limits of the Religion Question

  • Benjamin Schonthal

  • 13. To Extract the Essence from this Essenceless Body: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Immolation in Indian Buddhism

  • Reiko Ohnuma

  • 14. Reflection on Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Traditions

  • Jimmy Yu

  • 15. Relinquishing the Body to Reach the Pure Land: Buddhist Ascetic Suicide in Premodern Japan

  • Jacquelyn I. Stone

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Religion: Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190656492
ISBN-10: 0190656492
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kitts, Margo
Redaktion: Kitts, Margo
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Margo Kitts
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,609 kg
Artikel-ID: 123804254
Über den Autor
Margo Kitts is a professor of humanities and religious studies at Hawai'i Pacific University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1. Introduction: On Death, Religion, and Rubrics for Suicide

  • Margo Kitts

  • 2. To Die For: The Evolution of Early Jewish Martyrdom

  • Shmuel Shepkaru

  • 3. Performing Christian Martyrdoms

  • Gail Streete

  • 4. Collective Martyrdom and Religious Suicide: The Branch Davidians and Heaven's Gate

  • Catherine Wessinger

  • 5. Martyrdom and its Contestations in the Formative Period of Islam

  • Asma Afsaruddin

  • 6. The Death of Musa al- Kazim (d. 184/799): Knowledge and Suicide in Early Twelver Shi'ism

  • Najam Haider

  • 7. Apologia for Suicide: Martyrdom in Contemporary Jihadist Discourse

  • Mohammed M. Hafez

  • 8. Hindu Ascetic Death

  • Mary Storm

  • 9. Sati

  • David Brick

  • 10. Dying Heroically: Jainism and the Ritual Fast to Death

  • Anne Vallely

  • 11. The Tropics of Heroic Death: Martyrdom and the Sikh Tradition

  • Louis E. Fenech

  • 12. The Meanings of Sacrifice: The LTTE, Suicide, and the Limits of the Religion Question

  • Benjamin Schonthal

  • 13. To Extract the Essence from this Essenceless Body: Self-Sacrifice and Self-Immolation in Indian Buddhism

  • Reiko Ohnuma

  • 14. Reflection on Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Traditions

  • Jimmy Yu

  • 15. Relinquishing the Body to Reach the Pure Land: Buddhist Ascetic Suicide in Premodern Japan

  • Jacquelyn I. Stone

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Religion: Nichtchristliche Religionen
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190656492
ISBN-10: 0190656492
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kitts, Margo
Redaktion: Kitts, Margo
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Margo Kitts
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,609 kg
Artikel-ID: 123804254
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