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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I HISTORICAL SUICIDE CULTS
1 The Sicarii Suicide on Masada and the Foundation of a National Myth
2 Religious Mass Suicide Before Jonestown: The Russian Old Believers
PART II CONTEMPORARY SUICIDE CULTS
3 Purification, Illumination, and Death: The Murder-Suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple
4 Rhetoric, Revolution, and Resistance in Jonestown, Guyana
5 Individual Suicide and the End of the World: Destruction and Transformation in UFO and Alien-Based Religions
6 Apocalypse in Uganda: The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God One Decade On
PART III SOCIAL-POLITICAL SUICIDES
7 A Sociological Analysis of Muslim Terrorism
8 So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes
9 Burning Buddhists: Self-Immolation as Political Protest
10 Dying to Tell: Media Orchestration of Politically Motivated Suicides
PART IV FAUX SUICIDE CULTS
11 Death by Whose Hand? Falun Gong and Suicide
12 The Mount Carmel Holocaust: Suicide or Execution?
PART V SCREEN SUICIDE CULTS
13 Rescripting the Past: Suicide Cults on Television
14 Why Muslims Kill Themselves on Film: From Hollywood’s Racism to Girard’s Victimage Mechanism
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