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Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011

1 online resource (xii, 409 p.) : ill. (some col.)

ISBN 9780226519937 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0226519929 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780226519920 (pbk. : alk. paper)

"A critical inquiry book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / by Francoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner -- From Cuba with saints / by Marc Blanchard -- St. Elvis / by Lawrence Jasud -- Reviving the fairy tree: tales of European sanctity / by Francoise Meltzer -- Transgressing the self: making charismatic saints / by Simon Coleman -- On naming saints / by David Tracy -- Patron saint of the incongruous: rabbi Me’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 Roberto 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 Jas Elsner -- Apophthegmata / by Aviad Kleinberg.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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