TY - BOOK AU - Saloul,Ihab AU - Henten,Jan Willem van TI - Martyrdom: canonisation, contestation and afterlives T2 - Heritage and memory studies SN - 9789048540211 PY - 2020/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - gnd KW - Märtyrer KW - Judentum KW - Islam KW - Glaubenszeugnis KW - Christentum KW - Konferenzschrift KW - Fernzugriff KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Jan Willem van Henten and Ihab Saloul -- 1 The Interaction of Canon and History -- Some Assumptions -- Tobias Nicklas -- 2 The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs -- Yair Furstenberg -- 3 'Who Were the Maccabees?' -- The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances on Christian Difference -- Jennifer Wright Knust -- 4 Perpetual Contest -- Mieke Bal -- 5 'Martyrs of Love' -- Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Application of a Sufi Concept -- Asghar Seyed-Gohrab -- 6 Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs -- Jan Willem van Henten -- 7 The Scarecrow Christ -- The Murder of Matthew Shepard and the Making of an American Culture Wars Martyr -- Paul Middleton -- 8 Icons of Revolutionary Upheaval -- Arab Spring Martyrs -- Friederike Pannewick -- 9 Yesterday's Heroes? -- Canonisation of Anti-Apartheid Heroes in South Africa -- Jeremy Punt -- 10 The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation -- From Syriac Christianity to the Qur'ān and to the Dutch-Iranian Writer Kader Abdolah -- Marcel Poorthuis -- 11 'Female Martyrdom Operations' -- Gender and Identity Politics in Palestine -- Ihab Saloul -- 12 Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in 'Mad Max Fury Road' -- Laura Copier -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Jan Willem van Henten -- Figure 1 Mosaic by Franz Grau at the German Military Cemetery at Hooglede, Belgium -- Figure 2 Memorial Building by Robert Tischler at the German Military Cemetery at Donsbrüggen, Germany -- Figure 3 Mosaic of Tree of Life, by Franz Grau, Chapel of the German Military Cemetery at Menen, Belgium -- Friederike Pannewick -- Figure 4 Muḥammad Maḥmūd Street, Wall of the American University of Cairo, September 2012 -- Figure 5 Muḥammad Maḥmūd Street, Wall of the American University of Cairo, September 2012; Figure 6 Muḥammad Maḥmūd Street, Wall of the American University of Cairo, September 2012 -- Figure 7 and 8 Muḥammad Maḥmūd Street, Wall of the American University of Cairo, September 2012 -- Laura Copier -- Figure 9 War boy calls on his fellow war boys to witness him -- Figure 10 The first failed attempt at martyrdom by Nux -- Figure 11 Nux implores Capable to witness him -- Figure 12 Angharad using herself and her unborn child as a protective shield -- Figure 13 Angharad's martyred body -- Figure 14 Furiosa's frustration -- Figure 15 Furiosa is brought back to life by Max N2 - No detailed description available for "Martyrdom" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6038273 ER -