1st Edition
The Ultimate Sacrifice Martyrdom, Sovereignty, and Secularization in the West
By Clayton Fordahl
Copyright 2020
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical, and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behavior and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death, it provides a novel interpretation of Western political and religious history. In addition to thus redressing the... Read more
Preface
1. Introduction
2. A Theory of Martyrdom
3. The Seeds of the Church
4. The Suffering Body and the Body Politic
5. The Sacrificial Conscience
6. To Die So that the Nation Might Live
7. Western Martyrdom in a Secularized Age
Biography
Clayton Fordahl is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis, USA.
