Saints
Subtitle: faith without borders
By: edited by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226519920
Subjects: Christian saints; Saints; Attributes; Holiness
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner; title: From Cuba with saints / by Marc Blanchard; title: St. Elvis / by Lawrence Jasud; title: Reviving the fairy tree: tales of European sanctity / by Françoise Meltzer; title: Transgressing the self: making charismatic saints / by Simon Coleman; title: On naming saints / by David Tracy; title: Patron saint of the incongruous: rabbi Me'ir, the Talmud, and Menippean; title: Satire / by Daniel Boyarin; title: Thinking with saints: sanctity and society in the early modern world / by Simon Ditchfield; title: St. Dymphna and the lunatics: the advent of moral community psychiatry / by Bernard Rubin; title: On the politics of sainthood: resistance and mimicry in postcolonial Morocco / by Malika Zeghal; title: The enchantment of Judaism: Israeli anxieties and puzzles / by Aviad Kleinberg; title: Persuading the absent saint: image and performance in Marian devotion / by Roberto Maniura; title: Miracles of bodily transformation, or how St. Francis received the stigmata / by Arnold I. Davidson; title: Re-presenting a contemporary saint: padre Pio of Pietrelcina / by Michael A. di Giovine; title: Saint Teresa of Avila / by Julia Kristeva ; translated by Anne Marsella; title: "Lycidas": a wolf in saint's clothing / by Neil Forsyth; title: The invisibility of the saint / by Jean-Luc Marion; title: Beyond compare: pagan saint and Christian god in late antiquity / by Jaś Elsner; title: Apophthegmata / by Aviad Kleinberg.