Rethinking Christian martyrdom : the blood is the seed? /: the blood is the seed?. (2022)
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- Title:
- Rethinking Christian martyrdom : the blood is the seed? /: the blood is the seed?. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Rethinking Christian martyrdom : the blood is the seed?
- Further Information:
- Note: Matt Recla.
- Authors:
- Recla, Matt
- Contents:
- Introduction1. 'I Need to Watch Things Die': Why Martyrdom At All?Part I: Theories of the Martyr and Martyrdom2. Autothanatos: The Martyr's Self-Formation3. Homo Profanus: Martyrdom as Institutional Violence4. Blood as Seed: Martyrdom and the Triumph of ChristianityPart II: Martyrdom in Scholarship5. 'Voluntary' Martyrdom: Avoiding the Stigma of Suicide6. Scholarship as Ideology: Martyrdom as Christian Identity7. 'In Love With Death': Revitalizing the Pathological Approach to MartyrdomPart III: Morality of Martyrdom8. The Immorality of Martyrdom: Religion and the Manipulation of the Pathological9. Divine Compulsion: The Autothanatos and the Possibility of AuthenticityConclusion10. Blood or Seed?: Martyrdom and the Future of ReligionBibliography Index.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 272
Martyrdom -- Christianity
Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Christian martyrs - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350184275
9781350184268 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350184251
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