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5%OFFKenneth Cragg - Faith at Suicide: Lives in Forfeit - Violent Religion - Human Despair - 9781845191108 - V9781845191108
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Faith at Suicide: Lives in Forfeit - Violent Religion - Human Despair

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Description for Faith at Suicide: Lives in Forfeit - Violent Religion - Human Despair Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: HRLB; JFSR2; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 286.
Purposeful suicide in contemporary Islam and the deep pathos in its frequency for religious ends is the main impulse to the topic of Faith at Suicide. The Islamic phenomenon needs to be set in a wider context which reckons with suicide's incidence elsewhere, with its uneasy associations in martyrdom and with how it interrogates -- or is interrogated by -- the ethics of religious faith. The enigma of wilful suicide is no less a challenge to sanity or compassion when such faith is absent from the deed or dimly yearned for by it. I am pregnant with my cause', orators ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191108
SKU
V9781845191108
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99-25

About Kenneth Cragg
Kenneth Cragg was first in Jerusalem in 1939, and subsequently became deeply involved in areas of faith between Semitic religions under the stress of current politics. He later pursued doctoral studies in Oxford where he first graduated and became Prizeman' in Theology and Moral Philosophy, and where he is now an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He was a Bishop ... Read more

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