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The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as
contemporary events show, still very much alive. Martyrdom:
Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives 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.
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came
from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise
since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to
interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a
heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This
volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual
concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner
interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent
researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of
various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture,
politics, social affairs, and economics.
This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the
historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in
various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims
to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on
area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural
references in a broad and comparative manner.
Cultural Mobility, first published in 2009, is a blueprint and a
model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human
societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the
essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of
Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even
traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility
is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key
constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet
academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the
opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted
or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization,
exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random
events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and
restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of
principles. An international group of authors spells out these
principles and puts them into practice.
Cultural Mobility, first published in 2009, is a blueprint and a
model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human
societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the
essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of
Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even
traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility
is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key
constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet
academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the
opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted
or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization,
exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random
events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and
restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of
principles. An international group of authors spells out these
principles and puts them into practice.
This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human
phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied
re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern literatures. Despite
its divergent historical, religious, philosophical or political
circumstances, there does seem to be a certain inner logic, a
metaphorical structure or symbolical subtext underpinning and thus
unifying these heterogeneous literary manifestations of the idea of
martyrdom. In this volume, eighteen researchers from the fields of
literary, historical and religious studies reflect on the way
concepts of martyrdom are represented, staged, praised or
critically deconstructed in different world literatures.
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