Martyrdom The Psychology, Theology, and Politics of Self-Sacrifice

Subjects:

• Psychology » Psychology (General)
• Religious Studies » Theology/Spirituality

Reviews:

• [L]ocates motivating factors such as revenge and aggression in a primitive portion of the brain supporting a Darwinian basis for some acts of martyrdom in cultures motivated more by hate of others than love of higher values....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
  —Choice December 2004
• [W]e should be grateful to Fields for pulling it together. In our contemporary world, the news is full of reports of religiously and politically motivated suicide bombings. Fields gets the analysis of the mysterious and powerful act of martydom off to a start.
  —Science & Theology News July/August 2005

• Endorsement From Charles D. Spielberger
  Director, Center for Research in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology
  University of South Florida: A very timely and authoritative work with content that ranges from memory and neuropsychology to the social psychology of violence. The contributors present comprehensive and readable syntheses of the subject from the perspectives of their respective disciplines. The final section, a Conversation, presents a stimulating cross-disciplinary analysis of the subject matter that helps to provide a meaningful integration of the theoretical and research finding.
• Endorsement From Dr Karmela Belinki, Ph.D.
  Broadcasting Producer
  Finnish Broadcasting Company: Very engaging, important and topical. Martyrdom is enlightened from many perspectives....

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• A Literary Preamble by Collin Owens
• The Psychology of Martyrdom by Rona Fields
• The Politics of Martyrdom by Valerie Rosoux
• The Theology of Martyrdom by Michael Berenbaum and Reuven Firestone
• Conversations
• Index
• Biographies
• Figures
• :
• The Frontal Lobes
• The Memory Circuit
• Circuits Mediating Imagination and Affective Memory
• The Appraisal System