Saints :: faith without borders /

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 t...

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Weitere Verfasser: Meltzer, Françoise, Elsner, Jaś
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
Schriftenreihe:Critical Inquiry Book.
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Zusammenfassung: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 humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 409 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226519937
0226519937
1280126264
9781280126260
9786613530127
6613530123

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