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Author:
Cragg, Kenneth,
Title:
Faith at suicide : lives forfeit : violent religion--human despair / Kenneth Cragg.
Publisher:
Sussex Academic Press,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
vii, 180 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Suicide--Islam.--Islam.
Suicide--Judaism.--Judaism.
Suicide--Christianity.--Christianity.
Martyrdom--Islam.
Suicide bombers.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-166) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : body-tenancy, soul-tenure -- 'Canon fixed 'gainst self-slaughter' -- The veto rescinded -- 'Eyeless in Gaza' -- The Masada mind -- Suicidal Christian martyrology -- The kiss and the suicide of Iscariot -- Understanding Gethsemane -- The suicidal in contemporary Islam -- Suicides and shares -- Faith and the bond with life -- These unbelieving believers.
ISBN:
9781845191108 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1845191102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)59360192
LCCN:
2005010129
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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