Rethinking Christian martyrdom : the blood is the seed? /: the blood is the seed?. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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