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RELI 65 - (HP) Sex, Violence, and Death: Perspectives on Martyrdom in Judaism and Christianity

Semester Hours: 3
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This course examines martyrdom in Judaism and Christianity, both as a real phenomenon and as an element of religious tradition and group identity. Among other things, this course is concerned with how an ideal of martyrdom arose in late antiquity; with what we can learn about Jewish and Christian cultures from the martyrological narratives and poetry they produced; and with how and why the discourse of martyrdom is employed in society today (e.g., the “martyrs” of the massacre at Columbine High School).
 


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