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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.

Martyrdom --- Canonization --- 235.3*7 --- Rites and ceremonies --- Beatification --- Christian saints --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Religious aspects --- Canonization. --- Martyrdom. --- Martyrdom, canonization, commemoration. --- Martyre

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Concepts of voluntary death and martyrdom versus the ideal of preserving human life are an essential component of the Ethics of the Abrahamite religions throughout their history. The studies collected in this volume focus on concepts of voluntary death and martyrdom in the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Period Judaism, Early Christianity and its pagan environment, Rabbinic Judaism as well as in Islam. The contributions of scholars of different background present a broad panorama of the varied perspectives of the Abrahamite religions on this phenomenon. The established concepts of martyrdom are challenged as too schematic. Betrachtungen über das Ideal eines freiwilligen Todes für den eigenen Glauben oder eines Martyriums, das in scharfem Gegensatz zum Gebot der Lebensbewahrung steht, ziehen sich durch die Geschichte der abrahamitischen Religionen. Der vorliegende interdisziplinäre Band versammelt Forschungen zu den Vorstellungen eines religiös begründeten freiwilligen Todes oder Martyriums in der Hebräischen Bibel, im Judentum des Zweiten Tempels, im Frühchristentum und seiner paganen Umwelt, im rabbinischen Judentum und im Islam. Die Beiträge verdeutlichen die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der abrahamitischen Religionen auf dieses Phänomen. Es zeigt sich, dass die übergreifende, verallgemeinernde Charakterisierung jedes religiös bedingten freiwilligen Sterbens als 'Martyrium' der Komplexität des Phänomens nicht gerecht wird.

Martyrdom --- Christianity --- History --- 235.3*7 --- Death --- Suffering --- Martyrs --- Martelaren --- Religious aspects --- Conferences - Meetings --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Martyrdom - Christianity - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Martyres

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One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration honoring Caesar Geta. She was well-married and had recently become the mother of a baby son, but despite her advantages, she refused to recant her faith when she was arrested with other recent converts to Christianity. Imprisoned with her was her pregnant slave Felicity. Perpetua's steadfastness in her belief led to her martyrdom in the amphitheater. A

Martyrdom --- Christian martyrs --- Christianity --- Perpetua, --- Felicity, --- Christianity. --- -Christian martyrs --- -235.3*7 --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Martyrs --- Death --- Suffering --- Religious aspects --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Felicitas, --- Félicité, --- Martyre --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Christianisme --- 235.3*7 --- Martyrdom (Christianity) --- Martyrdom - Christianity --- Christian martyrs - Italy --- Perpetua et Felicitas mm. --- Perpetua, - Saint, - d. 203 --- Felicity, - Saint, - d. 203 --- Felicitas --- Félicité --- Felicity --- Perpetua --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua

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In The Blood of Martyrs Joyce E. Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martyrdom that took place during the first three centuries of the Christian era, describing the role of martyrdom in the development of the early Church, as well as its continuing influence on many of today's ideas.Salisbury shows through the engaging stories of the martyrs introduced in each chapter, how their legacy continues to shape contemporary ideas. Discussing modern martyrdom the book elicits deep lessons for the present from the ancient past and outlining the possibility of a religi

Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- Christian dogmatics --- History of civilization --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Christelijke martelaren --- Christian martyrs --- Martelaren [Christelijke ] --- Martyrs [Christian ] --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Martyrdom --- -Christian martyrs --- Persecution --- -235.3*14 --- Christians --- Religious persecution --- Atrocities --- Martyrs --- Death --- Suffering --- Christianity --- -History of doctrines --- -History --- -Hagiografie: martyrium --- Persecutions --- Religious aspects --- Rome --- Politics and government --- -Christian martyrs. --- History of doctrines --- History --- Christian martyrs. --- -Martyrdom --- 235.3*14 Hagiografie: martyrium --- Hagiografie: martyrium --- 235.3*14 --- Church history --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

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This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”.

Martyrologies --- Church history --- Gnosticism --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Nag Hammadi codices. --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Nag Hammadi library --- Chenoboskion manuscripts --- Nag Hammadi manuscripts --- Khenoboskion manuscripts --- Najʻ Ḥammādī texts --- Nag Hammadi texts --- Religion. --- Bible --- Religion --- Religion and sociology. --- Religious Studies. --- Biblical Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Theology. --- Philosophy. --- 27 "00/02" --- 235.3*7 --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- 27 "00/02" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- 27 "00/02" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"00/02" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Necrologies --- Bible-Theology. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Bible—Theology. --- Religion—Philosophy.