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Sacrificing the self : perspectives on martyrdom and religion

Author: Margaret Cormack
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Series: AAR the religions (Oxford University Press)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Cormack
ISBN: 0195149998 9780195149999 0195150007 9780195150001
OCLC Number: 47930726
Description: xv, 156 p. ; 22cm.
Contents: Is there martyrdom 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.
Series Title: AAR the religions (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: edited by Margaret Cormack.
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