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Author Traditions of Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East (Conference) (2011 : Berlin, Germany)

Title Martyrdom in the modern Middle East / Sasha Dehghani, Silvia Horsch (eds.)
Published Würzburg : Ergon Verlag, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
Series Ex oriente lux, 1863-9348 ; Band 14
Ex oriente lux (Würzburg, Germany) ; Bd. 14. 1863-9348
Contents Continuity and transformation : martrydom in the Bahā'ī faith. The birth of a monotheistic religion in modernity : on jihad and martyrdom in the Bahā'ī Faith / Sasha Dehghani. Martrydom and servanthood in the Bābī and Bahā'ī faiths : a struggle to defend a cosmic order / Per-Olof Åkerdahl. Between Karbalā' and Tabriz : contested martyrdom narratives / Moojan Momen -- Witnessing and sacrifice : theological and philosophical implications of martyrdom. Sunni and Shiite passion stories revisited : on the superseding of sacrifice and its eventual re-empowerment / Angelika Neuwirth. Martyrium als Zeugnis : zur Frage nach der theologischen und politischen Valenz religiöser Zeugenschaft, dargelegt am Beispiel des Martyriums der Trappistenmönche von Tibhirine/Algerien / Joachim Negel. Gandhi and the sovereignty of death / Faisal Devji -- Visual representations : ritual, the arts, and new media. Performing a massacre : murder and martyrdom in taʻziyih / Maryam Palizban. The mystical notion of the perfect man : discourses of Iranian revolutionary painters and the portrayal of martyrs / Alice Bombardier. Making salvation visible : rhetorical and visual representations of martyrs in Salafi jihadist media / Silvia Horsch -- Political action and ideological discourse. Martyrdom in light of the Arab Spring / Farhad Khosrokhavar. The discursive construction of Palestinian istishhādiyyāt within the frame of martyrdom / Lisa Franke. Global martyr practices and discourses : entanglements between East and West / Silvia Horsch
Summary This volume assembles contributions from different academic perspectives (religious and Islamic studies, literary and theatre studies, theology, sociology and history) on modern manifestations of martyrdom in the diverse Middle Eastern religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism and the Baha'i-faith. The latter is considered in more detail since it is often not included in comparative studies on the monotheistic religions. An excursus into the farer East composes the contribution on Mahatma Ghandi. The volume considers central sociological, philosophical and theological problems which lie at the heart of the phenomenon of martyrdom, the significance of martyrdom in different conflicts, the competing martyr figures which develop in the course of these conflicts as well as the accompanying representations in art and ritual
Analysis Theology & Religion
Martyrdom
Middle East
Tradition
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Baha'i-faith
Religion
Notes Revised presentations from the workshop "Traditions of Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East," held in October 2011 at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin, with additional contributions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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English and German
Subject Martyrdom -- Congresses
Martyrs -- Middle East -- Congresses
Religion -- Islam.
Martyrdom
Martyrs
Middle East
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Dehghani, Sasha, editor.
Horsch-Al Saad, Silvia, editor.
ISBN 9783956500305
395650030X