Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
"The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. Terminologies, practices, and reflections related to holin…
Was das Heilige ist und wie man darüber sprechen kann, ist eine offene Frage in der religionswissenschaftlichen und theologischen Forschung. Die Beiträge analysieren Diskurse über Heiliges in spätantiken Religionskulturen. Terminologien, Handlungen und Reflexionen in Bezug auf H…
The meaning of holiness and how one can speak about it remains an active research question in religious studies and theology. The articles analyze discourses about holiness from the religious cultures of late antiquity. Terminologies, practices, and reflections related to holine…
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
This work explores the use of athletic (agonistic) metaphors in the extant literature of the earliest Christian communities, particularly exploring athletic metaphors that appear in the writings associated with Paul (both in the undisputed letters such as Corinthians and Philipp…
Bu tezin amacı 15 Temmuz Darbe girişiminde hayatını kaybeden şehitlerin sosyo-ekonomik ve dindarlık durumlarını ortaya koymaktır. Çalışmada şehitlik kavramı, diğer ilahi dinlerde ve İslam'da şehitlik açıklanmıştır. Akabinde Türkiye'de darbeler tarihi ve 15 Temmuz darbe girişimi …
In this dissertation I demonstrate that the accounts of Christian martyrs under Islam are a significant and neglected source for the study of early Christian apologetics against Islam. I show that these texts are primarily apologetic and that the arguments taken by the texts inc…
The emergence of a self-consciously Christian Roman empire was accompanied by an unprecedented rise of violence carried on between opposed local religious communities. In particular, the Roman world after the reign of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, saw the adven…
The Maccabean martyrs were the only group of martyrs acknowledged by both medieval Christians and Jews. While scholars have discussed the Maccabean martyrs in rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, little has been published concerning them in later periods. No work has systema…
This dissertation, "The Discriminatory Discourses of Self-sacrifice: The State and the Dissident Martyrs in Post-revolutionary Iran," examines the sociopolitical, cultural, and religious transfigurations of martyrdom and self-sacrifice in recent Iranian history. It comparatively…
Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-cla…
"Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-cl…
The head of Saint Kiryollos -- What I write about and what I do not write about -- The video -- A conversation about martyrdom -- The martyrs' bishop -- The martyrs' pilgrimage church -- The martyrs' village -- The martyrs' houses -- With the martyrs' families -- Saint Menas's o…
