LEADER 04448nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910461897803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-12626-4 010 $a9786613530127 010 $a0-226-51993-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226519937 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161380 035 $a(EBL)878242 035 $a(OCoLC)781635122 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000621960 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12249135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621960 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10638855 035 $a(PQKB)11342950 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC878242 035 $a(DE-B1597)524256 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226519937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL878242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10541107 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL353012 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161380 100 $a20110223d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSaints$b[electronic resource] $efaith without borders /$fedited by Franc?oise Meltzer and Jas? Elsner 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (423 p.) 225 0 $aA Critical Inquiry Book 300 $a"A critical inquiry book." 311 $a0-226-51992-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / by Franc?oise 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 Franc?oise 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. 330 $aWhile the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity-categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world. 410 0$aCritical Inquiry Book 606 $aChristian saints 606 $aSaints$xAttributes 606 $aHoliness 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian saints. 615 0$aSaints$xAttributes. 615 0$aHoliness. 676 $a282.092/2 701 $aMeltzer$b Franc?oise$0251705 701 $aElsner$b Jas?$0167643 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461897803321 996 $aSaints$92221456 997 $aUNINA