Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 6
4. Acknowledgments 9
5. Introduction 11
6. 1. The Interaction of Canon and History. Some Assumptions 33
7. 2. The Changing Worlds of the Ten Rabbinic Martyrs 55
8. 3. ‘Who Were the Maccabees?’ The Maccabean Martyrs and Performances on Christian Difference 79
9. 4. Perpetual Contest 105
10. 5. ‘Martyrs of Love’. Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Application of a Sufi Concept 129
11. 6. Commemorating World War I Soldiers as Martyrs 153
12. 7. The Scarecrow Christ. The Murder of Matthew Shepard and the Making of an American Culture Wars Martyr 181
13. 8. Icons of Revolutionary. Upheaval Arab Spring Martyrs 203
14. 9. Yesterday’s Heroes? Canonisation of Anti-Apartheid Heroes in South Africa 221
15. 10. The Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers in Transformation. From Syriac Christianity to the Qur’ān and to the Dutch-Iranian Writer Kader Abdolah 241
16. 11. ‘Female Martyrdom Operations’. Gender and Identity Politics in Palestine 255
17. 12. Hollywood Action Hero Martyrs in ‘Mad Max Fury Road’ 283
18. List of Contributors 309
19. Index 315