Saints
Faith without Borders
Saints
Faith without Borders
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.
432 pages | 6 color plates, 26 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2011
Religion: Christianity, Comparative Studies and History of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Theology, and Ethics
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Table of Contents
Introduction
by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner
From Cuba with Saints
by Marc Blanchard
St. Elvis
by Lawrence Jasud
Reviving the Fairy Tree: Tales of European Sanctity
by Françoise Meltzer
Transgressing the Self: Making Charismatic Saints
by Simon Coleman
On Naming Saints
by David Tracy
Patron Saint of the Incongruous: Rabbi Me’<hamza>ir, the Talmud, and Menippean Satire
by Daniel Boyarin
Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World
by Simon Ditchfield
St. Dymphna and the Lunatics: The Advent of Moral Community Psychiatry
by Bernard Rubin
On the Politics of Sainthood: Resistance and Mimicry in Postcolonial Morocco
by Malika Zeghal
The Enchantment of Judaism: Israeli Anxieties and Puzzles
by Aviad Kleinberg
Persuading the Absent Saint: Image and Performance in Marian Devotion
by Robert Maniura
Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or How St. Francis Received the Stigmata
by Arnold I. Davidson
Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
by Michael A. Di Giovine
Saint Teresa of Avila
by Julia Kristeva
translated by Anne Marsella
‘Lycidas’: A Wolf in Saint’s Clothing
by Neil Forsyth
The Invisibility of the Saint
by Jean-Luc Marion
Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity
by Jaś Elsner
Apophthegmata
by Aviad Kleinberg
Index
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