Saved by a Martyr

Evangelical Mediation, Sanctification, and the “Persecuted Church

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7213419
AutoresOmri Elisha (autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen84
Número4
Páginas1056-1080
Fecha de publicación2016-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfw016
OpenAlexW2341384396
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas33

This article examines the significance of mediation in the public programming and activism of The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), an organization that offers international aid and advocacy to Christians identified as victims of persecution. Focusing on VOM's efforts to rally Westerners, especially evangelical Protestants, I argue that the antipersecution movement urges supporters to share the mantle of martyrdom by engaging in purposeful acts of religious mediation, including the consumption and circulation of martyrological media. I explore a related tendency among evangelicals to valorize non-Western Christians in precarious circumstances as exemplars of self-sacrificing piety, whose suffering represents and inspires conditions of sanctification. Drawing on media analysis and fieldwork, I explore how practices of mediation, as forms of “witness,” invite evangelicals to embody otherwise elusive virtues and modes of agency associated with Christian martyrs, while reflecting ambiguous modern conceptions of the nature of embodied suffering and the relationship between vulnerability and power

Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Martyr · Mediation · Persecution · Piety · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Witness · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies