Sacrificing the self : perspectives on martyrdom and religion
Title:
Sacrificing the self : perspectives on martyrdom and religion
Author:
Cormack, Margaret (Margaret Jean)
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
©2001
Physical Description:
xv, 156 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Is there martydom in the Hebrew bible? / Marc Brettler -- Honor and sacredness in the Roman and Christian worlds / Carlin Barton -- Very special death / Carole Straw -- Murder and martyrs in Anglo-Saxon England / Margaret Cormack -- Revaluation of martyrdom in early Islam / Keith Lewinstein -- Contemplative death in Jewish mystical tradition / Lawrence Fine -- Martyrdom in Sunni revivalist thought / Daniel Brown -- Truth and sacrifice / Lindsey Harlan -- Self-sacrifice as truth in India / D. Dennis Hudson.
Reading Level:
1440 Lexile.
Subject Term:
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ISBN:
9780195149999
9780195150001
Format :
Book
