The literature on populism overwhelmingly deals with the factors behind rise of populism: supply factors, and economic political crises. However, there is a lack engagement in construction populist narratives especially relations between violence. This paper addresses these gaps. Based an empirically rich case study Turkey’s ruling Justice Development Party (AKP) its leader President Recep T. E...

In four studies carried out across different cultural, religious, and political contexts, we investigated the association between religion and popular support for suicide attacks. In two surveys of Palestinians and one cognitive priming experiment with Israeli settlers, prayer to God, an index of religious devotion, was unrelated to support for suicide attacks. Instead, attendance at religious ...

Abstract This article explores the last letters written by Catholic patriarch of Ethiopia in exile Afonso Mendes, which illustrate that, face defeat, Mendes has chosen to write history martyrdom, sacrifice, and shedding blood for sake faith. A group requires a sense connection through temporary axis. Mendes’s choice these years corresponds will generating cohesion space continuity time that con...

-the term “ta’ziyeh” refers to an iranian dramatic genre which might be compared to the western passion play and is the only indigenous drama of the entire islamic world. this ritual drama has both an islamic and a persian heritage, the central theme of which is the tragic and heroic martyrdom of imam husayn, the grandson of the prophet mohammed and the third imam of shi’ite in the desert of ka...

Palestinian suicide bombing/martyrdom speaks both to the symbolic significance of the human body and also to the connections that this form of violence has to religious and interconnected political authorities and influences. This article examines these religiously and politically inspired events using an analysis of emotion and body, placing particular emphasis on their mediation through cultu...

This essay deals with the collective episodes of Christian martyrdom that took place in Japan Early Modern Time. On February 5, 1597 six Spanish Franciscans, seventeen Japanese catechists and three Jesuits, a priest two brothers were martyred by crucifixion on Nishizaka Hill, Nagasaki. episode Christians was first many such occurred to great extent during so-called Century or Namban Era (1549-1...

1 Basic context 2 Depictions in Luke-Acts 2.1 Status of the Church 2.2 Scribes and chief priests 2.3 Jerusalem Temple 2.4 Imprisonment of Peter and John 2.5 Role of Sadducees 2.6 Martyrdom of Stephen 2.7 Persecution in Damascus 2.8 Execution of James 2.9 Violence against Paul 2.10 Crowds in Corinth 2.11 Threats against Paul's life 2.12 Paul before a Sanhedrin 3 Elsewhere in the New Testament 3....