Sainthood revisioned
Subtitle: studies in hagiography & biography
By: edited by Clyde Binfield.
Contributors: Binfield, Clyde, 1940-
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Sheffield, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Christian biography -- Congresses.; Christian hagiography -- Congresses.; Biography -- Congresses.; Hagiography -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Early Irish saints : some uses of hagiography / Jane Stevenson; title: Comenius, between hagiography and historiography : reflections on the changing image of the Czech reformer / Jan Kumpera; title: Daniel Defoe, ministry, academy and milieu : a problem for whom? / Philip Mulready; title: The awkwardness of finding a saint in eighteenth-century Geneva : Rousseau's troublesome holiness / Linda Kirk; title: "Jam and Jerusalem" : Stephen Chivers (1824-1907), Baptist and village paternalist / Michael Booth; title: "An optimism of grace" : the spirituality of some Wesleyan kinswomen / Clyde Binfield; title: A spark in north east Asia : a personal hagiography of a Scottish missionary to Manchuria, John Ross (1842-1915) / James H. Grayson; title: Mosley, British fascism and religious imagery : fascist hagiography and political myth-making / Andrew Mitchell; title: Anglican biography since the Second World War : a modern tradition and its limitations / Garth Turner.