Saints and cultural trans-/mission
By: Michael Marten and Katja Neumann (eds.).
Series: Collectanea Instituti Anthropos -- vol. 45; Collectanea Instituti Anthropos -- v. 45.
Publisher: Academia Verlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sankt Augustin, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783896656216
Subjects: Saints; Cult; Religion and culture; Religion and sociology; Anthropology of religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The dwindling saint : from hagiography to folktale / Brian Murdoch; title: "Hechli Berbara!": identity and the celebration of Saint Barbara in North Lebanon / Christine B. Lindner; title: Saint John the Baptist in northern Ecuador, or the ritual making and fostering of ethnic identity / Emilia Ferraro; title: "The loneliest woman in Africa" - missionary biography as a form of Scottish Protestant sainthood / Michael Marten; title: Forgotten plurality - a cultural analysis of representations of St. Sebastian in the West / Jason Hartford; title: Whose bones are they anyway? / Lindy Richardson; title: St. Joseph as loving father in seventeenth-century Hispanic devotional painting - Josefa de Óbidos and Diego Quispe Tito / Jean Andrews; title: Pachamama and the Virgin revisited - coincidences and convergences / Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz.