Saints: Faith without Borders (A Critical Inquiry Book)
Brand: University of Chicago Press Journals
Categories: Books, Christian Books & Bibles, Catholicism



Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0226519920
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226519929
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Print length: 409 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2011
subtitle: Paperback – December 1, 2011
author: Françoise Meltzer Jas Elsner
review: Editorial Reviews Review “Overall, the collected contributions in Saints: Faith without Borders showcase both the wide range of approaches that can be brought to bear on the ‘saint’ and the myriad of circumstances where sainthood and sanctity occur. This volume provides a welcome opportunity to take the term ‘saint’ on the broadest possible level. Saints: Faith without Borders is an intellectual experiment that results in a delightful conflux of theory and application, yesterday and today, saints and sanctity.” ― Reviews in Religion & Theology “ Saints deserves attention, not only on account of the sophisticated content of most of the essays but also on account of the structure of the volume itself which provocatively defies scholarly convention by its ‘inorganicism, the very indecorousness and jangling’ together of incongruous elements.” ― Church History “This intelligently edited, consistently engaging volume collects eighteen essays from scholars in a variety of fields―theology, history of religions, philosophy, art history, comparative literature, etc.―dealing with saints and sainthood in their multifarious forms. . . . This volume is highly recommended not only for those interested in the category of the saint but also for scholars investigating the fraught relationship between religion and modernity.” ― Religious Studies Review About the Author Françoise Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she is also professor at the Divinity School and in the College. Meltzer is the author of five books, most recently of Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity , and a co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry . Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, and visiting professor of art history at the University of Chicago. Elsner’s most recent solo-authored book is Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text .