Browsing by Subject "martyrdom"
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Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs
(Feminist Review, 2005-11-01)This paper focuses on representations by and deployments of the four Palestinian women who during the first four months of 2002 killed themselves in organized attacks against Israeli military personnel or civilians in the ... -
The Land of the Savior: Óscar Romero and the Reform of Agriculture
(2016)This study approaches Óscar Romero by attending to his intimate involvement in and concern for the problematic surrounding the reform of Salvadoran agriculture and the conflict over property and possession underlying it. ... -
The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
(2011)According to the Syriac <italic>Acts of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> ...
