
Dying for Faith
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Ranging from Islam to Buddhism to new religious movements in the West, 'Dying for Faith' offers a comprehensive and highly original account of a complex phenomenon that has so far attracted sensational media coverage but scant academic attention.
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Introduction
Madawi Al-Rasheed and Marat Shterin, Between death of faith and dying for faith: reflections on religion, politics, society and violence
Part I: Understanding religiously motivated violence
Chapter 1 Apocalypse, history, and the empire of modernity
John Hall
Chapter 2 Martyrs and martial imagery: exploring the volatile link between warfare frames and religious violence
Stuart Wright
Chapter 3 Violence and new religions: an assessment of problems, progress, and prospects in understanding the NRM-violence connection
J. Gordon Melton and David G. Bromley
Chapter 4 Of 'cultists' and 'martyrs': the study of new religious movements and suicide terrorism in conversation
Massimo Introvigne
Chapter 5 In God's name: practising unconditional love to the death
Eileen Barker
Chapter 6 The terror of belief and the belief in terror: on violently serving God and nation
Abdelwahhab El-Affendi
Part II: Religiously motivated violence in specific contexts
Chapter 7 Rituals of life and death: the politics and poetics of jihad in Saudi Arabia
Madawi Al-Rasheed
Chapter 8 The Islamic debate over self-inflicted martyrdom
Azam Tamimi
Chapter 9 The radical nineties revisited: jihadi discourses in Britain
Jonathan Birt
Chapter 11 al-Shahada: a centre of the Shiite system of belief
Fouad Ibrahim
Chapter 12 Urban unrest and non-religious radicalization in Saudi Arabia
Pascal Menoret and Awadh al-Utaybi
Chapter 13 Bodily punishments and the spiritually transcendent dimensions of violence: a Zen Buddhist example
Ian Reader
Chapter 14 Jewish millennialism and violence
Simon Dein
Part III: Reporting religiously motivated violence
Chapter 15 Sacral violence: cosmologies and imaginaries of killing
Neil Whitehead
Chapter 16 Journalists as eyewitnesses
Noha Mellor
Chapter 17 Understanding religious violence: can the media be trusted to explain?
Mark Huband
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