Martyrdom: canonisation, contestation and afterlives
1 The Interaction of Canon and History -- 2 The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs -- 3 'Who Were the Maccabees?' -- 4 Perpetual Contest -- 5 'Martyrs of Love' -- 6 Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs -- 7 The Scarecrow Christ -- 8 Icons of Revolutionary Upheav...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Amsterdam, Netherlands]
Amsterdam University Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Martyrdom : canonisation, contestation and afterlives] (2022) (Bremmer, Jan N., 1944 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Heritage and memory studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Hero
/ Canonization
/ Martyr
/ Judaism
/ Islam
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| Further subjects: | B
Conference program 2016 (Amsterdam)
B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion B Canonization B Electronic books B Martyrdom |
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| Summary: | 1 The Interaction of Canon and History -- 2 The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs -- 3 'Who Were the Maccabees?' -- 4 Perpetual Contest -- 5 'Martyrs of Love' -- 6 Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs -- 7 The Scarecrow Christ -- 8 Icons of Revolutionary Upheaval -- 9 Yesterday's Heroes? -- 10 The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation -- 11 'Female Martyrdom Operations' -- 12 Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in 'Mad Max Fury Road' The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. This book examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives of martyrdom and connects these with cross-cultural acts and practices of remembrance. Martyrdom appeals to the imagination of many because it is a highly ambiguous spectacle with thrilling deadly consequences. Imagination is thus a vital catalyst for martyrdom, for martyrs become martyrs only because others remember and honour them as such. This memorialisation occurs through rituals and documents that incorporate and re-interpret traditions deriving from canonical texts. The canonisation of martyrdom generally occurs in one of two ways: First, through ritual commemoration by communities of inside readers, listeners, viewers and participants, who create and recycle texts, re-interpreting them until the martyrs ultimately receive a canonical status, or second, through commemoration as a means of contestation by competing communities who perceive these same people as traitors or terrorists. By adopting an interdisciplinary orientation and a cross-cultural approach, this book goes beyond both the insider admiration of martyrs and the partisan rejection of martyrdoms and concisely synthesises key interpretive questions and themes that broach the canonised, unstable and contested representations of martyrdom as well as their analytical connections, divergences and afterlives in the present |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9048540216 |