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Sovereignty and Martyrdom: A Sociological Sketch
Author(s) -
Fordahl Clayton
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12167
Subject(s) - sovereignty , redress , politics , sketch , sociology , islam , terrorism , sociological imagination , perspective (graphical) , law , political science , social science , history , archaeology , art , algorithm , computer science , visual arts
This paper has two goals: to develop a sociological conception of martyrdom and to use that concept to interpret the history of sovereignty in the West. While recent research on the topic has focused on martyrdom as a terrorist tactic associated with radical Islam, I redress these trends by analyzing martyrdom as a social process, focusing on cases of martyrdom in European history, and cultivating a new perspective on the relationship between religion and politics in the historical development of sovereignty in the West.