The Martyrs of Columbine

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403970009
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis The Martyrs of Columbine by : J. Watson

Download or read book The Martyrs of Columbine written by J. Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered 'Yes' and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were being hailed as modern-day martyrs and are seen by many American evangelicals as the sparks of a religious revival among teenagers. Cassie and Rachel, as innocents martyred for faith, also became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda and to lay the blame for Columbine at the feet of their liberal opponents. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God. They may have been simply victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred. Despite these questions the martyr-stories continued to be told and the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues. The popular significance of the martyrs of Columbine persists, and may even be growing. How and why is this happening? The Martyrs of Columbine is a groundbreaking investigation of what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture.

She Said Yes

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ISBN 13 : 9780874869224
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (692 download)

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Book Synopsis She Said Yes by : Misty Bernall

Download or read book She Said Yes written by Misty Bernall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is of an ordinary teenager growing up in suburban Colorado, and faced, as all teenagers are, with difficult choices and pressures. Told by her mother, it is Cassie's story, one of the Columbine High students killed by two schoolmates.

Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition

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Publisher : Tommy Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418513792
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition by : Beth Nimmo

Download or read book Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition written by Beth Nimmo and published by Tommy Nelson. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus . . . If I have to sacrifice everything . . . I will." ûRachel Scott The Columbine tragedy in April 1999 pierced the heart of our country. We later learned that the teenage killers specifically targeted Rachel Scott and mocked her Christian faith on their chilling, homemade videotapes. Rachel Scott died for her faith. Now her parents talk about Rachel's life and how they have found meaning in their daughter's martyrdom in the aftermath of the school shooting. Rachel's Tears comes from a heartfelt need to celebrate this young girl's life, to work through the grief and the questions of a nation, and to comfort those who have been touched by violence in our schools today. Using excerpts and drawings from Rachel's own journals, her parents offer a spiritual perspective on the Columbine tragedy and provide a vision of hope for preventing youth violence across the nation. Meets national education standards.

Columbine

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Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446552216
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Columbine by : Dave Cullen

Download or read book Columbine written by Dave Cullen and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. "The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ." So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. Expanded with a New Epilogue

She Said Yes

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743400526
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis She Said Yes by : Misty Bernall

Download or read book She Said Yes written by Misty Bernall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columbine High April 1999.

The Martyrs of Columbine

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312239572
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis The Martyrs of Columbine by : Justin Watson

Download or read book The Martyrs of Columbine written by Justin Watson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both allegedly answered “Yes” and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were hailed as modern-day Christian martyrs, and became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God; they simply may have been victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. As the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues, The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred.

Martyrdom and Memory

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231129862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis Martyrdom and Memory by : Elizabeth Anne Castelli

Download or read book Martyrdom and Memory written by Elizabeth Anne Castelli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising a wide range of early sources, this title identifies the roots of the concept of Christian martyrdom, as lloking at how it has been expressed in events such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

The Martyrs' Torch

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Publisher : Destiny Image Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780768420463
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis The Martyrs' Torch by : Bruce Porter

Download or read book The Martyrs' Torch written by Bruce Porter and published by Destiny Image Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a fateful spring day at Columbine High, others lifted up their torch and joined the crimson path of the martyrs' way. We cannot forget their sacrifice. This story graphically demonstrates why the Church will continue to bear a brilliant torch of God's love to all nations until the day of Christ's glorious return.

No Easy Answers

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Publisher : Lantern Books
ISBN 13 : 1590566750
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis No Easy Answers by : Brown, Brooks

Download or read book No Easy Answers written by Brown, Brooks and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history. Few people knew Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris better than Brooks Brown. Brown and Klebold were best friends in grade school, and years later, at Columbine, Brown was privy to some of Harris and Klebold’s darkest fantasies and most troubling revelations After the shootings, Brown was even accused by the police of having been in on the massacre—simply because he had been friends with the killers. Brown with journalist Rob Merritt tells his full version of the story. He describes the warning signs that were missed or ignored, and the evidence that was kept hidden from the public after the murders. He takes on those who say that rock music or video games caused Klebold and Harris to kill their classmates and explores what it might have been that pushed these two young men, from supposedly stable families, to harbor such violent and apocalyptic dreams. Shocking as well as inspirational and insightful, No Easy Answers is an authentic wake-up call for all the psychologists, authorities, parents, and law enforcement personnel who have attempted to understand the murders at Columbine High School. As the title suggests, the book offers no easy answers, but instead presents the unvarnished facts about growing up as an alienated teenager in America today. This edition contains a new afterword that describes what has happened in the United States since Columbine, and provides updates on the aftermath of the massacre.

Redeemed Bodies

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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664233295
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Book Synopsis Redeemed Bodies by : Gail Corrington Streete

Download or read book Redeemed Bodies written by Gail Corrington Streete and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do religious people choose paths that lead to their deaths as martyrs? Why do some who are killed for their faith become known and revered while others do not? Gail Streete asks these important and disturbing questions in the context of early Christianity, looking at the stories of martyred women such as Thecla, Perpetua, and Felicitas--women whose stories helped shape Christian faith for centuries, yet are all but forgotten in the modern world. Streete reclaims these stories and relates them to tragic instances of martyrdom in our own world, pulling from stories as diverse as the victims of Columbine and female suicide attackers in the Muslim world. What do their deaths mean, and why do we find their stories so moving?

The Myth of Martyrdom

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230342132
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of Martyrdom by : Adam Lankford

Download or read book The Myth of Martyrdom written by Adam Lankford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Lankford looks at the motivation of suicide bombers and other rampage killers.

Jesus Freaks: Martyrs

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Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441260048
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Jesus Freaks: Martyrs by : DC Talk

Download or read book Jesus Freaks: Martyrs written by DC Talk and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more Christian martyrs today than there were in ad 100--in the days of the Roman Empire. Now in the twenty-first century, according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, more than 150,000 Christians are martyred around the world every year. "Remember the Lord's people who are in jail and be concerned for them. Don't forget those who are suffering, but imagine that you are there with them." Hebrews 13:3 cev Their stories must be told.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111909982X
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom by : Paul Middleton

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom written by Paul Middleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, wide-ranging volume exploring the historical, religious, cultural, political, and social aspects of Christian martyrdom Although a well-studied and researched topic in early Christianity, martyrdom had become a relatively neglected subject of scholarship by the latter half of the 20th century. However, in the years following the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, the study of martyrdom has experienced a remarkable resurgence. Heightened cultural, religious, and political debates about Islamic martyrdom have, in a large part, prompted increased interest in the role of martyrdom in the Christian tradition. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom is a comprehensive examination of the phenomenon from its beginnings to its role in the present day. This timely volume presents essays written by 30 prominent scholars that explore the fundamental concepts, key questions, and contemporary debates surrounding martyrdom in Christianity. Broad in scope, this volume explores topics ranging from the origins, influences, and theology of martyrdom in the early church, with particular emphasis placed on the Martyr Acts, to contemporary issues of gender, identity construction, and the place of martyrdom in the modern church. Essays address the role of martyrdom after the establishment of Christendom, especially its crucial contribution during and after the Reformation period in the development of Christian and European national-building, as well as its role in forming Christian identities in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This important contribution to Christian scholarship: Offers the first comprehensive reference work to examine the topic of martyrdom throughout Christian history Includes an exploration of martyrdom and its links to traditions in Judaism and Islam Covers extensive geographical zones, time periods, and perspectives Provides topical commentary on Islamic martyrdom and its parallels to the Christian church Discusses hotly debated topics such as the extent of the Roman persecution of early Christians The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of religious studies, theology, and Christian history, as well as readers with interest in the topic of Christian martyrdom.

Columbine Courage

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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780849956072
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis Columbine Courage by : Ron Luce

Download or read book Columbine Courage written by Ron Luce and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the murders at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 have inspired Christian teens to show courage, resist peer pressure, dedicate their lives to Jesus, and witness for their faith.

The Myth of Persecution

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062104543
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Book Synopsis The Myth of Persecution by : Candida Moss

Download or read book The Myth of Persecution written by Candida Moss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to church tradition and popular belief, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. But as Candida Moss reveals in The Myth of Persecution, the “Age of Martyrs” is a fiction. There was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still invoked by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. By shedding light on the historical record, Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get them.

Comprehending Columbine

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Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592134922
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Comprehending Columbine by : Ralph W. Larkin

Download or read book Comprehending Columbine written by Ralph W. Larkin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the school massacre that shocked a nation.

Shadowed Ground

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756143
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Shadowed Ground by : Kenneth E. Foote

Download or read book Shadowed Ground written by Kenneth E. Foote and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.