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Titre(s) : Martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-immolation [Texte imprimé] : religious perspectives on suicide / edited by Margo Kitts
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-344 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [305]-335. Index
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kitts, Margo (1952-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Martyre
Suicide -- Religion
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190656485. - ISBN 0190656484. - ISBN 9780190656492. - ISBN 0190656492 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45555100j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45555100
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
