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" Performing One's Own Death: Martyrdom, Sovereignty and Truth "
John Soboslai
Juergensmeyer, Mark
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804276
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TL49101
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1853205793; 10191489
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Burrows, Alice Claire
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Performing One's Own Death: Martyrdom, Sovereignty and Truth\ John SoboslaiJuergensmeyer, Mark
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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2016
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Ph.D.
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Religious Studies
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2016
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392
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Committee members: Thomas, Christine; Yang, Mayfair
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-34007-5
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| Abstract
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This work develops a new understanding of the socials significance of martyrdom through a comparative analysis of the concept’s deployment in three distinct settings. Beginning by critically assessing the linguistic provenance of the term “martyr,” from the Greek word for a court witness, combined with a discussion of how such deaths are discursively shaped in opposition to the victim, soldier or suicide, I argue for a heuristic that centers on the opposition of interpretive frames at work in conflicts that create martyrs. To support such a model, I proceed by analyzing collected sets of texts said to be written by martyrs where they frame their intention and link their death to larger political and symbolic complexes. To establish a common lens through which to investigate deaths that occur in radically different contexts, I introduce the concept of the sovereign imaginary: a coherent ideal of cosmic order that configures moral judgments of right and wrong, delineates social boundaries, and provides processes of establishing legitimate authority. The contemporary political and religious authorities who rely on and propagate such imaginaries are responsible for shaping life for the communities under analysis, and their words are considered in tandem with those of the martyrs themselves.
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Religion; Comparative; Sociology
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Martyrdom;Political theology;Religion and politics;Truth;Violence
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Juergensmeyer, Mark
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Religious StudiesUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
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