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The Sign of the Cross: From Golgotha to Genocide

Autor Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iun 2011
This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross.
The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz).
Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers—and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412811330
ISBN-10: 1412811333
Pagini: 314
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1: Introduction: The Scandal of the Cross; 2: The Crucifixion of Christ as a Narration of Grandiose Moral Masochism; 3: Christian Masochism versus Christian Masochism by Proxy; 4: Resurrection: The Victory of the Cross; 5: Crusades: From the Cross to the Sword; 6: Paranoia versus Paranoia by Proxy: The Cross and Christian Antisemitism; 7: The Holocaust: The Hooked Cross and Christian Antisemitism; 8: Unresolved Aftermath of the Holocaust; 9: Conclusion

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This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross