Saints faith without borders / edited by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner.
| Other author | Meltzer, Françoise. |
| Other author | Elsner, Jaś. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, |
| Description | xii, 409 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner -- From Cuba with saints / by Marc Blanchard -- St. Elvis / by Lawrence Jasud -- Reviving the fairy tree: tales of European sanctity / by Françoise Meltzer -- Transgressing the self: making charismatic saints / by Simon Coleman -- On naming saints / by David Tracy -- Patron saint of the incongruous: rabbi Me'ir, the Talmud, and Menippean -- Satire / by Daniel Boyarin -- Thinking with saints: sanctity and society in the early modern world / by Simon Ditchfield -- St. Dymphna and the lunatics: the advent of moral community psychiatry / by Bernard Rubin -- On the politics of sainthood: resistance and mimicry in postcolonial Morocco / by Malika Zeghal -- The enchantment of Judaism: Israeli anxieties and puzzles / by Aviad Kleinberg -- Persuading the absent saint: image and performance in Marian devotion / by Roberto Maniura -- Miracles of bodily transformation, or how St. Francis received the stigmata / by Arnold I. Davidson -- Re-presenting a contemporary saint: padre Pio of Pietrelcina / by Michael A. di Giovine -- Saint Teresa of Avila / by Julia Kristeva ; translated by Anne Marsella -- "Lycidas": a wolf in saint's clothing / by Neil Forsyth -- The invisibility of the saint / by Jean-Luc Marion -- Beyond compare: pagan saint and Christian god in late antiquity / by Jaś Elsner -- Apophthegmata / by Aviad Kleinberg. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011007967 |
| ISBN | 9780226519920 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226519929 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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