Sacred Suicide 1st Edition by James R Lewis, Carole M Cusack ISBN 1409450872 9781409450870
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ISBN 10: 1409450872
ISBN 13: 9781409450870
Author: James R Lewis, Carole M Cusack
The label ‘Suicide Cults’ has been applied to a wide variety of different alternative religions, from Jonestown to the Solar Temple to Heaven’s Gate. Additionally, observers have asked if such group suicides are in any way comparable to Islamist suicide terrorism, or to historical incidents of mass suicide, such as the mass suicide of the ancient community of Masada. Organizationally and ideologically diverse, it turns out that the primary shared trait of these various groups is a common stereotype of religion as an irrational force that pushes fanatics to undertake acts of suicidal violence.
Offering a valuable perspective on New Religious Movements and on religion and violence, Sacred Suicide brings together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars of sociology, religious studies and criminology.
Sacred Suicide 1st Table of contents:
PART I HISTORICAL SUICIDE CULTS
1 The Sicarii Suicide on Masada and the Foundation of a National Myth
2 Religious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown: The Russian Old Believers
PART II CONTEMPORARY SUICIDE CULTS
3 Purification, Illumination, and Death: The Murder-Suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple
4 Rhetoric, Revolution, and Resistance in Jonestown, Guyana
5 Individual Suicide and the End of the World: Destruction and Transformation in UFO and Alien-Based Religions
6 Apocalypse in Uganda: The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God One Decade On
PART III SOCIAL-POLITICAL SUICIDES
7 A Sociological Analysis of Muslim Terrorism
8 So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes
9 Burning Buddhists: Self-Immolation as Political Protest
10 Dying to Tell: Media Orchestration of Politically Motivated Suicides
PART IV FAUX SUICIDE CULTS
11 Death by Whose Hand? Falun Gong and Suicide
12 The Mount Carmel Holocaust: Suicide or Execution?
PART V SCREEN SUICIDE CULTS
13 Rescripting the Past: Suicide Cults on Television
14 Why Muslims Kill Themselves on Film: From Hollywood’s Racism to Girard’s Victimage Mechanism
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