Desiring Martyrs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desiring Martyrs write by Harry O. Maier. This book was released on 2020-12-16. Desiring Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions, martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals. By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result in new appropriations of earlier traditions.
Martyrdom and Memory
Martyrdom and Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martyrdom and Memory write by Elizabeth Anne Castelli. This book was released on 2004. Martyrdom and Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utilising a wide range of early sources, this title identifies the roots of the concept of Christian martyrdom, as lloking at how it has been expressed in events such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints write by Alban Butler. This book was released on 1866. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Martyrdom of the Franciscans write by Christopher MacEvitt. This book was released on 2020-03-06. The Martyrdom of the Franciscans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdom While hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways and places, slain by members of many different groups, martyrdom in a Franciscan context generally meant death at Muslim hands; indeed, in Franciscan discourse, "death by Saracen" came to rival or even surpass other definitions of what made a martyr. The centrality of Islam to Franciscan conceptions of martyrdom becomes even more apparent—and problematic—when we realize that many of the martyr narratives were largely invented. Franciscan authors were free to choose the antagonist they wanted, Christopher MacEvitt observes, and they almost always chose Muslims. However, martyrdom in Franciscan accounts rarely leads to conversion of the infidel, nor is it accompanied, as is so often the case in earlier hagiographical accounts, by any miraculous manifestation. If the importance of preaching to infidels was written into the official Franciscan Rule of Order, the Order did not demonstrate much interest in conversion, and the primary efforts of friars in Muslim lands were devoted to preaching not to the native populations but to the Latin Christians—mercenaries, merchants, and captives—living there. Franciscan attitudes toward conversion and martyrdom changed dramatically in the beginning of the fourteenth century, however, when accounts of the martyrdom of four Franciscans said to have died while preaching in India were written. The speed with which the accounts of their martyrdom spread had less to do with the world beyond Christendom than with ecclesiastical affairs within, MacEvitt contends. The Martyrdom of the Franciscans shows how, for Franciscans, martyrdom accounts could at once offer veiled critique of papal policies toward the Order, a substitute for the rigorous pursuit of poverty, and a symbolic way to overcome Islam by denying Muslims the solace of conversion.
And God Knows the Martyrs
And God Knows the Martyrs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook And God Knows the Martyrs write by Nathan S. French. This book was released on 2020-03-24. And God Knows the Martyrs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition. While many studies sift through the biographies of these so-called martyrs for evidence of social, psychological, political, or economic strain in an effort to rationalize what are often labeled "suicide bombings," Nathan French argues that, through their legal arguments, Jihadi-Salafis craft a theodicy that is meant to address the suffering and oppression of the global Muslim community. Pulling from a broad selection of primary sources, including previously untranslated fatwas, on the subjects of martyrdom operations, jurisprudence, and political philosophies, French reveals that the Jihadi-Salafi legal debates on martyrdom reorient the basic objectives of the Shari 'a, focusing on maximizing the general welfare and promoting religion above all other concerns--including the preservation of life. Understanding this utilitarian turn opens the possibility for formulating a meaningful engagement and critique of Jihadi-Salafi legal interpretation and theories of warfare within a broader, just-war framework. And, as the jurists and propagandists of ISIS have demonstrated, this turn also opens the possibility for the use of self-renunciative violence as a means of state formation.
