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Excessive Saints
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Author : Rachel J. D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-18
Excessive Saints written by Rachel J. D. Smith and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-18 with Religion categories.
For thirteenth-century preacher, exorcist, and hagiographer Thomas of Cantimpré, the Southern Low Countries were a harbinger of the New Jerusalem. The Holy Spirit, he believed, was manifesting itself in the lives of lay and religious people alike. Thomas avidly sought out these new kinds of saints, writing accounts of their lives so that these models of sanctity might astound, teach, and trouble the convictions of his day. In Excessive Saints, Rachel J. D. Smith combines historical, literary, and theological approaches to offer a new interpretation of Thomas’s hagiographies, showing how they employ vivid narrative portrayals of typically female bodies to perform theological work in a rhetorically specific way. Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas’s texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person’s life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic. Smith examines how these texts represent the lives and bodies of holy women to render them desirable objects of devotion for readers and how Thomas passionately narrates these lives even as he works through his uncertainties about the opportunities and dangers that these emerging forms of holiness present. Excessive Saints is the first book to consider Thomas’s narrative craft in relation to his theological projects, offering new visions for the study of theology, medieval Christianity, and medieval women’s history.
Saints
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Author : Françoise Meltzer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-12
Saints written by Françoise Meltzer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.
Medieval Saints Lives
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Author : Emma Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2008
Medieval Saints Lives written by Emma Campbell and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
Contending that the study of hagiography is significant both for a consideration of medieval literature and for current theoretical debates in medieval studies, this book considers a range of Old French and Anglo-Norman texts, using modern theories of kinship and community to show how saints' lives construe social and sexual relations. Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to hagiography's religious functions, particularly its role as a vehicle of community formation. In attempting to think beyond the limits of human relationships, saints' lives nonetheless create an environment in which queer desires and modes of connection become possible, suggesting that, in this case at least, the orthodox nurtures the queer. This book thus suggests not only that medieval hagiography is worthy of greater attention but also that this corpus might provide an important resource for theorizing community in its medieval contexts and for thinking it in the present. EMMA CAMPBELL is Associate Professor of French at the University of Warwick.
The Saints Collection 2 428 Saints
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Author : Catholic Way Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Catholic Way Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-30
The Saints Collection 2 428 Saints written by Catholic Way Publishing and has been published by Catholic Way Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Religion categories.
THE SAINTS COLLECTION [2,428 SAINTS] CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — 2,428 Hagiographies of the Saints! — 400 Original Illustrations of the Saints — 18 Volumes in One — Over 3.13 Million Words — Includes Over 5,300 Active Linked Endnotes — Includes an Active Index, 42 Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore PUBLISHER: LARGE E-BOOK. INCLUDED BOOKS ON SAINTS: THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: COMPLETE EDITION By Reverend Alban Butler — 1,458 Saint Biographies THE GOLDEN LEGEND By Jacobus de Voragine — 170 Lives of the Saints PICTORIAL LIVES OF THE SAINTS: WITH REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR By John Gilmary Shea — 400 Original Illustrations of the Saints THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: WITH REFLECTIONS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR By Reverend Alban Butler — 400 Lives of the Saints PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING
Blessed Excess
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Author : Stephen H. Webb
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-03-30
Blessed Excess written by Stephen H. Webb and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-30 with Religion categories.
Stephen H. Webb is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wabash College. He is the author of Re-figuring Theology: The Rhetoric of Karl Barth, also published by SUNY Press.
The Lives Of The Saints Complete Edition
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Author : Reverend Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher: Catholic Way Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-19
The Lives Of The Saints Complete Edition written by Reverend Alban Butler and has been published by Catholic Way Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with Religion categories.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS: COMPLETE EDITION REVEREND ALBAN BUTLER — One of the Greatest Catholic Classic! — Complete Edition: 2.2 Million Words — 1,458 Saint Biographies — Includes 5,393 Active Linked Endnotes. — Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Alban Butler was a Catholic priest in the 18th century who's still remembered today for his biographies of the Catholic Church's greatest figures. Decades of work went into his seminal work, The Lives of the Saints, commonly referred to as "Butler's Lives.” Hundreds of years later, it is still the most comprehensive collection of biographies of saints, and it is a must read for anyone interested in Christianity and the religion's history. PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1821
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1821 with categories.
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-01-17
The Lives Of The Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
The Lives Of The Primitive Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints
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Author : Alban Butler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1798
The Lives Of The Primitive Fathers Martyrs And Other Principal Saints written by Alban Butler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1798 with Religion categories.
Saints And Postmodernism
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Author : Edith Wyschogrod
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990-10-15
Saints And Postmodernism written by Edith Wyschogrod and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study."—Michael Gareffa, Theological Studies "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics."—Mark I. Wallace, Religious Studies Review