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Books on: ritual suicide

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Cult and Ritual Abuse: Its History, Anthropology, and Recent Discovery in Contemporary America

Book by James Randall Noblitt, Pamela Sue Perskin; Praeger, 2000

Subjects:

Multiple Personality--United States, Occult Crime--United States, Ritual Abuse Victims--United States, Ritual Abuse--United States

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

A personal but also scholarly journey into the clandestine and confusing world of ritual abuse, this book provides unique insights into the catastrophic experiences of ritual abuse survivors and their efforts to find healing through psychological treatment. This revised edition provides contemporary ...
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A personal but also scholarly journey into the clandestine and confusing world of ritual abuse, this book provides unique insights into the catastrophic experiences of ritual abuse survivors and their efforts to find healing through psychological treatment. This revised edition provides contemporary revelations about cults in existence today and also new therapies developed since the first edition was published in 1995. Co-authored by a clinical psychologist and the executive director of a professional organization dedicated to treating survivors of cult and ritual abuse, this edition will be of interest to both academic and professional markets.
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From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity

Book by Anton J. L.Van Hooff; Routledge, 1990

Subjects:

Suicide--Greece--History, Suicide--Rome--History

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in ...
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Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in the various media and traces the development of the concept of self-murder, as opposed to the original idea of autothanasia, which lies at the root of the Christian abhorrence of suicide.
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Durkheim's Suicide: A Century of Research and Debate

Book by W. S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Suicide

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897 is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the ...
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Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897 is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. This book will be of vital interest to any serious scholar of Durkheim's thought and to the sociologist looking for a fresh methodological perspective.
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Self-Destruction in the Promised Land: A Psychocultural Biology of American Suicide

Book by Howard I. Kushner; Rutgers University Press, 1989

Subjects:

Suicide--Physiological Aspects, Suicide--United States--History, Suicide--United States--Psychological Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...provide a structural mechanism for mourners, they rarely provide rituals for those who suffer other severe losses such as desertion...unemployment. The Freudian dynamic suggests that many, if not all, suicides are "mourners" who have been denied adequate cultural mechanisms...
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Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

Book by Timothy Hill; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Suicide--Rome

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which dictated the attitude to suicide amongst the Roman nobility. He describes the meaning & significance of often bizarre suicides in the contexts of their time & place, arguing that the significance of the 'noble death' cannot be understood in the context of modern ideas.

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Journal Articles on: ritual suicide

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Cultures of Suicide?: Suicide Verdicts and the "Community" in Thirteenth-And Fourteenth-Century England

Journal article by Sara M. Butler; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

British history--Social aspects, Community--Evaluation, Community--History, Suicide--Evaluation, Suicide--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Museum, 1910), 3: 683, no. 24. (26.) Georges Minois, History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture, trans. Lydia Cochrane...43, 49, 59. (30.) Nancy Caciola, "Wraiths, Revenants and Ritual in Medieval Culture," Past and Present 152 (1996): 10. (31...
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Suicide and Gender: Reading Suicide through Butler's Notion of Performativity (1)

Journal article by Katrina Jaworski; Journal of Australian Studies, 2003

Subjects:

Australia--Social aspects, Australians--Social aspects, Suicide--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...various `rituals. These rituals may consist of: a) thinking about suicide; b) imagining what...place. Without these rituals, suicide cannot be named as...produced pattern in which suicide is a repeated ritual on an individual and...
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Antony's "Secret House of Death": Suicide and Sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra

Journal article by Jacqueline Vanhoutte; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000

Subjects:

Antony and Cleopatra (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Suicide--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...torture, Antonys death is a "piece of compensatory drama," a ritual purgation of the public world generally and, more specifically...Cleopatras domestic metaphor (the "house of death") implies that suicide, like Antonys body, is private, even though it calls to itself...
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Explosive Baggage: Female Palestinian Suicide Bombers and the Rhetoric of Emotion

Journal article by Terri Toles Patkin; Women and Language, Vol. 27, 2004

Subjects:

Islamic fundamentalism, Suicide bombings--Psychological aspects, Women terrorists--Evaluation

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Indeed, the "Israeli Defense Forces report that one of the suicide bombers whose attack they managed to prevent had wrapped toilet...resolve (Victor, 2003). On the designated day, he completes a ritual bath, puts on clean clothes and tucks a Koran in the left breast...
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Frames of Female Suicide

Journal article by Margaret Higonnet; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 32, 2000

Subjects:

Control (Psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Death in literature--Analysis, Feminist criticism--Analysis, Suicide--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...linguistic analogy to talk about the "syntax" and "semantics" of suicide. Under the "syntax" of suicide we may understand a personal and also public ritual entailing a sequence of steps. The steps that initiate the act may include decision making...

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Magazine Articles on: ritual suicide

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Ritual Suicide or Mass Murder in France?

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 113, February 7, 1996

Subjects:

France--Crime, Murder--Investigations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Ritual suicide or mass murder in...deadly winter-solstice ritual. The bodies of the...apparently committed suicide were found nearby...to a similar 1994 ritual killing. Autopsies...other mass murder-suicides that occurred in the...
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Law as Dance, Theater, or Music: Legal Procedure and Ritual

Magazine article by Rafael Chodos; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002

Subjects:

Justice, Administration of, Liturgical language--Social aspects, Music--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--History, Ritual

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...circumstances: her husband had committed suicide, and the life insurance company was just...In California, even if the insured commits suicide the policy must be paid provided that the suicide did not take place within two years of the...
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Satanic Cults' Ritual Abuse of Children: Horror or Hoax?

Magazine article by Jeffrey S. Victor; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, November 1993

Subjects:

Child abuse--Social aspects, Satanism--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...described as being Satanic cults, involved in malicious acts ranging from the killing of domestic animals to ritual murder and suicide. Even teenage graffiti is seen through the distorting lens of the legend, as the cryptic symbolism of Satanists...
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Burnt Offerings: Sometimes, in the Face of Theatrical Flops and Mishaps, Ogun, the Yoruban God of Creativity and Destruction, Demands a Ritual Animal Sacrifice

Magazine article by Wole Soyinka; American Theatre, Vol. 23, March 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Personal narratives, Theatrical directors--Personal narratives, Theatrical producers and directors--Personal narratives, You Must Set Forth at Dawn (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: Entire Library

...and Destruction, Demands a Ritual Animal Sacrifice. by Wole...driven many a director close to suicide or onto the psychiatrists couch...clear correlation between a ritual/festival denied and the consequences...when game decides to commit suicide by car, it is only the police...
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Suicide Machine: A Powerful Tale of West Bank Bombers Offers Bleak Insights

Magazine article by Victoria Segal; New Statesman, Vol. 135, April 17, 2006

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Paradise Now (Motion picture)--Movie reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...in a student band but they are actually suicide bombers-in-waiting, and when they arrive...they are prepared by their handlers, a ritual that includes prayer, food, clothing...it is the moderate Suha, who insists a suicide bombing is "not sacrifice, thats revenge...

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Newspaper Articles on: ritual suicide

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Britons in Ritual Suicide Shooting

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 24, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Britons in Ritual Suicide Shooting. Byline: TONY GALLAGHER;ROGER SCOTT THREE young Britons were at the centre of a macabre suicide riddle in the U.S. last night. Stephan Bateman and Ruth Fleming...
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CULT SUICIDE PACT OR MASS MURDER?; Sect Leader May Still Be Alive after 600 Die

Newspaper article by Shaun Milne; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

CULT SUICIDE PACT OR MASS MURDER?; Sect Leader May Still Be Alive after 600 Die. by Shaun Milne THE ritual suicide of 600 followers of a doomsday cult in Africa may have been mass murder. Police investigating the deaths in Kanunga...
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Japanese Author's Despair Prophetic: But Suicide Tainted Legacy of Mishima

Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, May 3, 1996

Subjects:

Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...continues to haunt Japan a quarter-century after his ritual hara-kiri suicide shocked the world. As one of Japans greatest writers...his lap. One student completed the traditional suicide ritual (Japanese use the word seppuku), slicing off Mishimas...
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Town of the Damned; Suicide.Sacrifice.And Sheer Hell in a Community Where the Devil Is at Work

Newspaper article by Tom Merrin; Sunday Mirror (London, England), June 30, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Town of the Damned; Suicide.Sacrifice.And Sheer Hell in...desecration, animal sacrifice and ritual burning. Local clergymen...did not record a verdict of suicide. Instead she left the verdict...being set alight in a form of ritual burning. The Rev Hindley...
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MASSACRED; Al-Qaeda Blamed as 150 Iraqis Die in Suicide Blasts

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 3, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a disgrace to Islam. The Iraqi bombings devastated a Shia ritual, which was banned for decades during Saddams rule. In Karbala...had been found by police before it was detonated. A would-be suicide bomber whose explosives failed to detonate was captured near...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ritual suicide

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Mishima, Yukio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...harangued the Japanese self-defense forces for their lack of power under the Japanese constitution, Mishima committed ritual suicide ( seppuku ). See biographies by J. Nathan (1974) and H. S. Stokes (1975). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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Cult

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...vary widely in doctrine, leadership, and ritual, but most stress direct experience of...and more than 900 others committed mass suicide. In 1993 a gunfight near Waco, Tex., between...Temple, whose members died by murder or suicide in Quebec, Switzerland, and France in...

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