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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity-categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blanchard, Marc (Contribuidor), Boyarin, Daniel (Contribuidor), Coleman, Simon (Contribuidor), Davidson, Arnold I. (Contribuidor), Ditchfield, Simon (Contribuidor), Elsner, Jas (Editor ), Elsner, Jaś (Contribuidor), Forsyth, Neil (Contribuidor), Giovine, Michael A. Di (Contribuidor), Jasud, Lawrence (Contribuidor), Kleinberg, Aviad (Contribuidor), Kristeva, Julia (Contribuidor), Maniura, Robert (Contribuidor), Marion, Jean-Luc (Contribuidor), Meltzer, Françoise (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rubin, Bernard (Contribuidor), Tracy, David (Contribuidor), Zeghal, Malika (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Colección:A Critical Inquiry Book
Temas:
Christian saints.
Holiness.
Saints > Attributes.
RELIGION / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • From Cuba with Saints
  • St. Elvis
  • Reviving the Fairy Tree: Tales of European Sanctity
  • Transgressing the Self: Making Charismatic Saints
  • On Naming Saints
  • Patron Saint of the Incongruous: Rabbi Me'ir, the Talmud, and Menippean Satire
  • Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World
  • St. Dymphna and the Lunatics: The Advent of Moral Community Psychiatry
  • On the Politics of Sainthood: Resistance and Mimicry in Postcolonial Morocco
  • The Enchantment of Judaism: Israeli Anxieties and Puzzles
  • Persuading the Absent Saint: Image and Performance in Marian Devotion
  • Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or How St. Francis Received the Stigmata
  • Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
  • Saint Teresa of Avila
  • 'Lycidas': A Wolf in Saint's Clothing
  • The Invisibility of the Saint
  • Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity
  • Apophthegmata
  • Index

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