Why were Caravaggio’s Sleeping Cupid (1608) and The Seven Works of Mercy (1607) requested for display at a number humanitarian public events? And why did work inspire series photographic journalistic reportages on contemporary migratory phenomena? This article surveys the main circumstances linking pictorial corpus to so-called European migrant crisis. After critical reflection social construct...

Abstract This article explores the promotion of “Jesuit sanctity,” in delicate passage between suppression and restoration Society Jesus, as a reflection process revival order. The strategies sainthood that were fostered by ex-Jesuits during restored reveal fundamental information about self-image order wanted to show world. These emerge clearly from activity General Postulation for Causes Sain...

The literature on martyrdom has not, so far, systematically analysed a constitutionally secular state’s extensive use of religion in propagating narratives by using state-controlled religious institutions. This paper addresses this gap literature. In addition, even though some studies have how been used for political purposes Turkey mythmaking and building collective memory, institution’s activ...

This article considers the eulogy given by George Bell, then bishop of Chichester, at London remembrance service held in July 1945 for Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bell's offers a unique form marking death. On one hand he presented traditional biography Bonhoeffer, whilst same time depicted Bonhoeffer's life as not over, but having moved into stage glorified martyrdom. The explores how Bell argued that...

thinking simultaneously of humor and battlefield is hardly expectable; however, the most genuine jokes can be seen in this very battlefield verbal culture in a simple and sensitive form which has rarely been paid attention to. this witticism can be categorized into four classes; namely, devotional, fight and martyrdom, drinking and eating, and social interactions which have the most similitude ...