Salvation at stake: Christian martyrdom in early modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory by Frederick Hale

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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024). by Taurayi Munemo

“…Following this, it is clear why Dlamini decides to explore necropolitics through the notion of political martyrdom in critiquing South Africa’s racialised perspective of the sacrifices made by most South Africans during apartheid. …”
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La famille Bhutto ou les « martyrs de la démocratie » au Pakistan by Lionel Baixas

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Rafael del Riego, mártir en vida by Maud Le Guellec

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Candida R. Moss. The Myth of Persecution: How Early-Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2013. 308 s. ISBN: 978-0-06210452-6 by Ramazan Adıbelli

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Religious Symbolism and Political Resistance: Navalny’s Martyr Narrative in the Russian Opposition by Nadezhda Beliakova, Zhanna Timofeeva

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Gelibolu Yarımadası Savaş Arkeojeofiziği Çalışmaları: Şahindere Şehitliği ve Lone Pine Anıtı Örnek Bölgeleri by Cahit Yalçıner, Yunus Can Kurban, Erdem Gündoğdu, Mehmet Ali Yücel

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Męczeństwo formą samobójstwa? by Marcin Cholewa

“…The article focuses on key elements of martyrdom (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, dying for the faith, virtues pertaining to God, bearing witness to truth and love, patient endurance until death, externalised defending the truth of faith, a persecutor as opposed to the martyr, no pursuit of martyrdom, the pursuit of martyrdom not for its glory) and altruistic suicide (conscious and voluntary acceptance of death, death for the sake of others, society, bearing witness to the values, God, honour, friendship, freedom, desire for death without reward, death as a personal act, not harming innocent people, exceptions are acts of terrorism and suicide acts during wars). …”
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Męczeństwo – chrześcijańska wyłączność? by Krzysztof Kościelniak

“…The main aim of this article is to show the principal acts of martyrdom that have been found in nearly all the world major religious traditions. …”
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Święty Maksymilian Maria Kolbe – męczeństwo z miłości by Wiesław Bar

“…The modest texts in the number about martyrdom, reveal just the habitual readiness of Knight of the Immaculate, as evidenced by the intention of the Mass of April 30, 1918, celebrated the day after his ordination: “pro gratia et martyrii apostolate, pro me et confratribus in Collegio”. …”
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Świadek męczeństwa i jego rola w świetle jurysprudencji Kongregacji Spraw Kanonizacyjnych by Zdzisław J. Kijas

“… In the legal understanding, martyrdom requires external recognition as well as external evaluation. …”
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Public Transmission, and Religious Symbolism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement: The Cases of Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral and the Pilgrimage of the National Union of Wome... by Chloé Clément

“…Davison’s funeral brings forward the importance of suffragette martyrdom for the organisation’s propaganda and members’ understanding of militancy and martyrdom in light of their religious convictions. …”
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Luke’s Divine Call of Jesus. Part One by Robert Lee Williams

“… Luke represents Jesus’ death as the martyrdom of a prophet. M. Dibelius has noted this in 1919. …”
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Roma, León y Lisboa: variaciones memorísticas del culto medieval a San Adrián y Santa Natalia by José Alberto Moráis Morán

“…In this paper the different processes of medieval memory construction of Saints Adrian and Natalia are studied through the presence of their relics in the altars of some churches in Rome, León and Lisbon. Following the martyrdom of Saint Adrian in the East and the transference of his mortal remains by his wife to Byzantium, it was between the 7th and the 13rd centuries that their worship was developed in the Iberian Peninsula therefore creating significant worship strategies. …”
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Uma outra representação da Rua Nova dos Mercadores, em Lisboa: a tábua do “martírio de S. Sebastião”, de Gregório Lopes by Luísa Trindade

“…From the empirical recognition of the connection between two urban representations – the depiction of the Rua Nova dos Mercadores (New Street of Merchants), in Lisbon, belonging to the Kelmscott Manor Collection (c. 1570) and the background architecture of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, painted by Gregório Lopes for the Convent of Christ in Tomar (1530s) – and its subsequent conclusions, this paper revisits some of the most iconic iconographic representations of the city, the arguments that supports their identification and their importance for the knowledge of the central areas of the 16th century Lisbon, city so often described and yet so poorly imagined.…”
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Un panthéon martyrial censuré par Isabelle II : enquête sur l’estampe « Víctimas de la causa popular » by Pierre Géal

“…As early as 1820, the liberals developed a martyrdom pantheon that provided their movement with heroic referents capable of embodying the values they defended, but also of stimulating the political commitment of their compatriots. …”
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Ostrov Pereon a středoevropská misie kolem roku 1000 by Jan Stejskal

“…Adalbert (Vojtěch), the bishop of Prague and personal Otto’s friend, played the crucial role within the new imperial eastern policy. His martyrdom in pagan Prussia stimulated numerous missions to the Central Europe heavily supported by the emperor and also by the pope. …”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…Whilst a number of theological themes emerge which give the novel an apologetic dimension—the authority of the Church, the importance of the priesthood, the nature of evil and sin, the importance of the liturgy and the significance of martyrdom amongst others—the key theme of the novel, and its chief centre of interest, is to be found in the theme of conversion—this time to Christianity itself—and the role played by conscience in this process, as illustrated in the character of the young Greek pagan, Callista.…”
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Ancient Christian care for prisoners: first and second centuries by T. Nicklas

“…The study explores material not only from the New Testament Gospels (Matt. 25; Luke 4) and Acts, but also from the Pauline Corpus and extra-canonical literature such as Ignatius of Antioch’s Epistles, later Acts of the Apostles, Martyrdom literature and even a passage from Lucian of Samosata’s Life of Peregrinus. …”
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Shaping a Collective Identity through Self-Representation: Early Suffrage Autobiographies and the Militant Experience by Chloé Clément

“…The reproduction of imprisonments, hunger strikes or other militant actions assert defining characteristics of militant experience and contribute to emphasise a collective identity built upon self-sacrifice, devotion, and martyrdom. While these autobiographies demonstrate how the self-representation of individual experiences had a collective purpose and influence over a community, they also describe how notions of self-representation and collective identity are reciprocal. …”
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