Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Interaction of Canon and History: Some Assumptions
- 2 The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs
- 3 lsquo;Who Were the Maccabees?’: The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances on Christian Difference
- 4 Perpetual Contest
- 5 ‘Martyrs of Love’: Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Application of a Sufi Concept
- 6 Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs
- 7 The Scarecrow Christ: The Murder of Matthew Shepard and the Making of an American Culture Wars Martyr
- 8 Icons of Revolutionary Upheaval: Arab Spring Martyrs
- 9 Yesterday's Heroes?: Canonisation of Anti-Apartheid Heroes in South Africa
- 10 The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation: From Syriac Christianity to the Qur’ān and to the Dutch-Iranian Writer Kader Abdolah
- 11 ‘Female Martyrdom Operations’: Gender and Identity Politics in Palestine
- 12 Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in ‘Mad Max Fury Road’
- List of Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Interaction of Canon and History: Some Assumptions
- 2 The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs
- 3 lsquo;Who Were the Maccabees?’: The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances on Christian Difference
- 4 Perpetual Contest
- 5 ‘Martyrs of Love’: Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Application of a Sufi Concept
- 6 Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs
- 7 The Scarecrow Christ: The Murder of Matthew Shepard and the Making of an American Culture Wars Martyr
- 8 Icons of Revolutionary Upheaval: Arab Spring Martyrs
- 9 Yesterday's Heroes?: Canonisation of Anti-Apartheid Heroes in South Africa
- 10 The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation: From Syriac Christianity to the Qur’ān and to the Dutch-Iranian Writer Kader Abdolah
- 11 ‘Female Martyrdom Operations’: Gender and Identity Politics in Palestine
- 12 Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in ‘Mad Max Fury Road’
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- MartyrdomCanonisation, Contestation and Afterlives, pp. 9 - 10Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2020