
Published online:
24 August 2023
Published in print:
17 November 2023
Online ISBN:
9780197689189
Print ISBN:
9780197689141
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A Still Small Voice A Still Small Voice
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Spectacle Spectacle
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Shakshuka Shakshuka
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Procedures of Deathwork Procedures of Deathwork
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Moments of Ultra-Religiosity Moments of Ultra-Religiosity
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The Inner Sanctum The Inner Sanctum
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Blood on Their Hands Blood on Their Hands
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The End and the Beginning The End and the Beginning
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The Following Night and the Day After The Following Night and the Day After
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Ordinary Unnatural Death Ordinary Unnatural Death
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Decomposition Decomposition
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Chapter
1 Hell: The Arena of Suicide Terrorism from a Zero Range
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1–30
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Published:August 2023
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Aran, Gideon, 'Hell: The Arena of Suicide Terrorism from a Zero Range', The Cult of Dismembered Limbs: Jewish Rites of Death at the Scene of Palestinian Suicide Terrorism (New York , 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Aug. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689141.003.0001, accessed 8 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter opens with a participant-observer’s thick description of the arena of suicide terrorism in the immediate aftermath of the lethal explosion. The author was on the ground with the ZAKA team to recount the sights, sounds, and smells of the scene of horror as experienced by the Jewish ultra-Orthodox volunteers. A detailed representation of the sites of Palestinian massacre in Jerusalem during the Intifada is followed by a discussion of the religious logic of the deep structure of these concrete manifestations of hell. The chapter ends with a comparative analysis of the peculiar symbolically rich deathwork of ZAKA in various morbid arenas.
Keywords:
horror, corpses, dismemberment, blood, death management, unnatural death, spectacle, grotesque, decomposition, ultra-religiosity
Subject
Religious Studies
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Oxford Scholarship Online
The Cult of Dismembered Limbs. Gideon Aran, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197689141.003.0001
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