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Sacrificing the Self: Perspectives in Martyrdom and Religion (Aar the Religions (Unnumbered).) |
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Published: 2002-07-18 |
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 Understanding the significance of Sacrifice within the context of Religious Folklore.
I had originally purchased this book under the impression that it was a collection of articles discussing Sacrifice that was linked to atonement and redemption, much akin to the Christian understanding of Blood Atonement. However the book ended up discussing martyrdom from a rather different context.
I was very impressed with the articles regarding Sacrificial figures of Martyrdom within the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), The Martyrs of Christianity during the Roman Period, as well as both the re-examination of Martyrdom from a Classical Sunni Islamic perspective and the perhaps now defunct Satti rituals found with Hindu Societies.
The only thing I feel that book could have included was an understanding of Sacrifice from the Shia Islamic perspective, which can be found in books such as "Redemptive Suffering in Islam" as well "Witnesses to Faith" which are also great books on the subject.
I would definitely recommend this book to any student of comparative religion, anthropology or sociology of religion. Often books discussing the concept of Martyrology within a Religious Framework are tainted by their extreme bias either towards or against (e.g a Neo-con discussing Islamic Martyrdom or a Christian discussing Catholicism's understanding and theology surrounding the early christian martyrs).
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