Faith at Suicide: Lives in Forfeit - Violent Religion - Human Despair

by Kenneth Cragg

Purposeful suicide in contemporary Islam and the deep pathos in its frequency for religious ends is the main impulse to the topic of Faith at Suicide. The Islamic phenomenon needs to be set in a wider context which reckons with suicide's incidence elsewhere, with its uneasy associations in martyrdom and with how it interrogates -- or is interrogated by -- the ethics of religious faith. The enigma of wilful suicide is no less a challenge to sanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845191102
• ISBN13: 9781845191108
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"