John Soboslai

Constructing Religious Martyrdom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.-- University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016) under the title: Performing one's own death: martyrdom, sovereignty and truth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9781009483001
• ISBN-10: 1009483005
• Artikelnr.: 70146278

Autorenporträt

John Soboslai is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Montclair State University. He is the coauthor of God in the Tumult of the Global Square and Project Director of Immersive Religion, which creates virtual reality experiences of religious rituals, and which is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: concerning martyrdom
2. Executed martyrs in second century Christianity
3. The human bombs of twentieth century Shi'i Islam
4. Sikh martyr imaginaries in the early twentieth century
5. The martyrdom of twenty-first century Tibetan self-immolators
6. Performances of suffering: The drama of martyrdom
7. Witnesses to a sovereign imaginary
Conclusion: The witness of martyrdom
Epilogue
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index.