Title Statements
- Full title :On Beheading.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2022.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer International Publishing AG
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (236 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030961435, 3030961435
- oclc:on1346460472
- LC Classification:H61.15
- Dewey Decimal:364.66
Table of Contents
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why a Book on This Topic? -- A Thing or Two about the Meaning and Origin -- A Contemporary Trend -- Style and Method -- The Chapter Scheme -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Othering -- The Basis -- The Self and the Other -- Otherling as a Construction -- Threat Perception and In-Group Consolidation -- The Nature of the Political -- The Spectre of Religion -- Eternal Othering -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Severing Sovereignty -- The Offending Head! -- Islamic State and the Revenge of Sovereignty -- Severing the Sovereign Through Cunning -- Displaying the Severed Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Soliciting the Sacred -- Beheading and the Islamic Tradition -- Decapitation and Martyrdom -- Meriah -- Decapitating the Evil -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Penality -- Why Punish -- Evolution of Beheading in Jurisprudence -- Extremist Islamic Jurisprudence and Beheading -- The "Decapitating State" -- Cruelty by Some Other Name -- Decapitation as Deterrence -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Machinery -- The Weapon -- The Weapon of the Di…
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