Saints : faith without borders /
Meltzer, Françoise.
Elsner, Jaś.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
"A critical inquiry book."
Includes index.
From Cuba with saints / Marc Blanchard -- St. Elvis / Lawrence Jasud -- Reviving the fairy tree : tales of European sanctity / Françoise Meltzer -- Transgressing the self : making charismatic saints / Simon Coleman -- On naming saints / David Tracy -- Patron saint of the incongruous : Rabbi Meʼir, the Talmud, and Menippean satire / Daniel Boyarin -- Thinking with saints : sanctity and society in the early modern world / Simon Ditchfield -- St. Dymphna and the lunatics : the advent of moral community psychiatry / Bernard Rubin -- On the politics of sainthood : resistance and mimicry in postcolonial Morocco / Malika Zeghal -- The enchantment of Judaism : Israeli anxieties and puzzles / Aviad Kleinberg -- Persuading the absent saint : image and performance in Marian devotion / Roberto Maniura -- Miracles of bodily transformation, or How St. Francis received the stigmata / Arnold I. Davidson -- Re-presenting a contemporary saint : Padre Pio of Pietrelcina / Michael A. Di Giovine -- Saint Teresa of Avila / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Anne Marsella -- "Lycidas" : a wolf in saint's clothing / Neil Forsyth -- The invisibility of the saint / Jean-Luc Marion -- Beyond compare : pagan saint and Christian God in late antiquity / Jaś Elsner -- Apophthegmata / Aviad Kleinberg.
Christian saints.
Saints
Holiness.