Introduction / Jolyon Mitchell. Filming the ends of martyrdom / Kate Cooper -- Martyrdom in Islamic thought and praxis: a historical survey / Asma Afsaruddin -- Rendering unto Caesar: the rhetorics of divided loyalties in Tudor England / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Kristeva's "new knowledge": terrorism, martyrdom, and psychoanalytic humanism: insights from two early modern instances / Gary Waller -- Martyrdom, terrorism, and the rhetoric of sacrifice: the cases of Marat, Robespierre, and Loiserolles / Julia V. Douthwaite -- The sentimental construction of martyrdom as motivation in the thought of Maximilien Robespierre, 1789-1792 / David Andress -- Terror, vengeance, and martyrdom in the French Revolution: the case of the shades / Ronald Schechter -- John Foxe and British attitudes to martyrdom after the French Revolution / Dominic Janes -- Fenianism and the martyrdom-terrorism nexus in Ireland before independance / Guy Beiner -- Spurning "this worldly life": terrorism and martyrdom in contemporary Britain / Akil N. Awan -- Martyrdom and hostage executions in the Iraq War: the cases of Kenneth Bigley and Margaret Hassan / Alex Houen -- Filming the ends of martyrdom / Jolyon Mitchell.
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