What Happens at a Norwegian Political Youth Camp?
Plus: Do Christian martyrs get rewarded in the afterlife? Also: How does a confirmed death toll decline?
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Explainer thanks Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Øivind Bratberg, Tore Hansen, Knut Heidar, and Anders Ravik Jupskås of the University of Oslo; Robert Blitzer of ICF International; Elizabeth Castelli, author of Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making; and Eric Holdeman of Eric Holdeman and Associates.*
Correction, July 26, 2011: This article originally misidentified Robert Blitzer as Robert Blazer.
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Photograph of Utøya Island by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. Photograph of Anders Behring Breivik from Facebook/Wikimedia.