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 This article examines ways to analyze and understand the social cultural transformation that occurred after 2011 uprising in downtown Cairo. We argue for a sociological perspective using renewed version of concept “the sacred” analysis. Visual material – graffiti murals on walls Cairo is discussed relation process transforming death an individual into collective martyrdom. The ro...

Both Alan Hollinghurst and Paul Mendez address the vulnerability of dissident, non-normative masculinities. With this purpose, I will first revise narratives martyrdom as an iconography (and trope) which relies on but exceeds its religious origins to understand gay black identity representation in these writers. There are, however, some differences their treatment martyrdom. Hollinghurst’s care...

Abstract The conclusion of this collection studies endeavors to recapture five major questions that special issue the Journal Jesuit Studies poses on subject martyrdom: Is gesture a form imitation Christ (or imitatio Christi) or is it itself sacrifice? How does get rid shadow suicide voluntary death? do singularity its experience and community within which in name exercised articulate? Can mart...

The literature on populism overwhelmingly deals with the factors behind rise of populism: supply factors, and economic political crises. However, there is a lack engagement in construction populist narratives especially relations between violence. This paper addresses these gaps. Based an empirically rich case study Turkey’s ruling Justice Development Party (AKP) its leader President Recep T. E...

In four studies carried out across different cultural, religious, and political contexts, we investigated the association between religion and popular support for suicide attacks. In two surveys of Palestinians and one cognitive priming experiment with Israeli settlers, prayer to God, an index of religious devotion, was unrelated to support for suicide attacks. Instead, attendance at religious ...

Abstract This article explores the last letters written by Catholic patriarch of Ethiopia in exile Afonso Mendes, which illustrate that, face defeat, Mendes has chosen to write history martyrdom, sacrifice, and shedding blood for sake faith. A group requires a sense connection through temporary axis. Mendes’s choice these years corresponds will generating cohesion space continuity time that con...