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UNINA9910461897803321 |
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Saints [[electronic resource] ] : faith without borders / / edited by Françoise Meltzer and Jaś Elsner |
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Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, c2011 |
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1-280-12626-4 |
9786613530127 |
0-226-51993-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (423 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MeltzerFrançoise |
ElsnerJaś |
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Christian saints |
Saints - Attributes |
Holiness |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"A critical inquiry book." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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'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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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UNINA9910781250203321 |
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Black Power at Work : Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry / / David Goldberg, Trevor Griffey |
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Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Civil rights movements - United States |
Black power - United States |
Labor movement - United States |
Affirmative action programs - United States |
Construction workers - Labor unions - United States |
African American labor union members |
African American construction workers |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing Black Power -- 1. "Revolution Has Come to Brooklyn": Construction Trades Protests and the Negro Revolt of 1963 / Purnell, Brian -- 2. "The Laboratory of Democracy": Construction Industry Racism in Newark and the Limits of Liberalism / Rabig, Julia -- 3. "Work for Me Also Means Work for the Community I Come From": Black Contractors, Black Capitalism, and Affirmative Action in the Bay Area / Rosen, John J. -- 4. Community Control of Construction, Independent Unionism, and the "Short Black Power Movement" in Detroit / Goldberg, David -- 5. "The Stone Wall Behind": The Chicago Coalition for United Community Action and Labor's Overseers, 1968-1973 / Gellman, Erik S. -- 6. "The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and "Voluntary" Affirmative Action / Griffey, Trevor -- 7. From Jobs to Power: The United Construction Workers Association and Title VII Community Organizing in the 1970's / Griffey, Trevor -- Conclusion: White Male Identity Politics, the Building Trades, |
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and the Future of American Labor / Goldberg, David / Griffey, Trevor -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index |
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Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960's and 1970's. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics outside the U.S. South. In the process, "community control" of the construction industry-especially government War on Poverty and post-rebellion urban reconstruction projects- became central to community organizing for black economic self-determination and political autonomy. The history of Black Power's community organizing tradition shines a light on more recent debates about job training and placement for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented workers. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating modern affirmative action and minority set-aside programs in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but these programs relied on "voluntary" compliance by contractors and unions, government enforcement was inadequate, and they were not connected to jobs programs. Forty years later, the struggle to have construction jobs serve as a pathway out of poverty for inner city residents remains an unfinished part of the struggle for racial justice and labor union reform in the United States. |
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