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The Martyrs of Columbine
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 28.00During the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered "yes" and were killed. This volume investigates what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture. more...
Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 36.00A comprehensive investigation of the Book of Martyrss compilation, printing, publication, illustration, and reception. more...
Christian Persecution, Martyrdom, and Orthodoxy
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 134.99This volume brings together seven seminal papers by the great radical historian Geoffrey de Ste. Croix, who died in 2000, on early Christian topics, with an especial focus on persecution and martyrdom. Christian martyrdom is a topic which conjures up ready images of inhumane persecutors confronted by Christian heroes who perish for the instant but... more...
Jesus Freaks: Martyrs
Baker Publishing Group 2005; US$ 18.99Jesus Freaks opens the eyes of a new generation to the persecution of Christians around the world and calls for lives of unashamed faith. more...
Martyrdom and Memory
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 27.99-- Elizabeth Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Duke University more...
Dying to Be Men
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 59.99At once brave and athletic, virtuous and modest, female martyrs in the second and third centuries were depicted as self-possessed gladiators who at the same time exhibited the quintessentially "womanly" qualities of modesty, fertility, and beauty. L. Stephanie Cobb explores the double embodiment of "male" and "female" gender ideals in these figures,... more...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD)
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The present volume?s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres emerge, e.g., the Lives of Saints (Athanasius on Antony), sermons (the Cappadocians), hymns (Prudentius). Authors like Eusebius of... more...






