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 th...
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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'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 Jaś Elsner
- Apophthegmata / by Aviad Kleinberg.