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Saints and Society

Author : Donald Weinstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226890570
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Society written by Donald Weinstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell examine the lives of 864 saints who lived between 1000 and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity prevalent in late medieval and early modern Europe. They also provide a substantial body of information on the people among whom the saints lived and by whom they came to be venerated. In the first part, the authors give close consideration to what the saints' lives reveal about childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; the impact of religious inspiration upon family bonds; and family influences upon religious behavior. The second part provides a composite picture of piety and its changing configuration in Latin Christendom. With the assistance of statistical analysis, the authors answer questions involving the popular perception of holiness, social class, and gender.

Saints and Society

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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (936 download)

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Saints & society : the two worlds of western Christendom ; 1000 - 1700

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Saints & society : the two worlds of western Christendom ; 1000 - 1700 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saints

Author : Françoise Meltzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226519937
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Saints written by Françoise Meltzer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts

Author : Sharon Farmer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724061
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts written by Sharon Farmer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein bring together essays—all hitherto unpublished—that combine some of the best of these new approaches with rigorous research and traditional scholarship. Some of these essays re-envision the professionals of religion: the monks and nuns who carried out crucial social functions as mediators between living and dead, repositories for social memory, and loci of vicarious piety. In their religious life these people embodied an image of the society that produced them. Other contributions focus on social categories, usually expressed as dichotomies: male/female, insider/outsider, saint/outcast. Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts is the first book to show the interaction of seemingly antithetical groups of medieval people and the ways in which they were defined by, as well as against, each other. All of the essays, taken together, form a tribute to Lester K. Little, pioneer in the study of religion in medieval society.

Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes

Author : Erika Summers Effler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226188671
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Laughing Saints and Righteous Heroes written by Erika Summers Effler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? To explore these questions, Erika Summers Effler undertook three years of ethnographic fieldwork with two groups: anti–death penalty activists STOP and the Catholic Workers, who strive to alleviate poverty. In both communities, members must contend with problems that range from the broad to the intimately personal. Adverse political conditions, internal conflict, and fluctuations in financial resources create a backdrop of daily frustration—but watching an addict relapse or an inmate’s execution are much more devastating setbacks. Summers Effler finds that overcoming these obstacles, recovering from failure, and maintaining the integrity of the group require a constant process of emotional fine-tuning, and she demonstrates how activists do this through thoughtful analysis and a lucid rendering of their deeply affecting stories.

Saints and Somalis

Author : I. M. Lewis
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569021033
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Somalis written by I. M. Lewis and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa. Rigorous, outspoken, and backing his arguments with reflections based on a lifetime of research and scholarship, Lewis makes a major contribution to understanding the place and role of religion in Somali society.

Saints and Virtues

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Virtues written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.

Saints and Society

Author : Earle E. Cairns
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666719773
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Society written by Earle E. Cairns and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do revivals merely prepare converts for an enjoyment of “pie in the sky by and by”? Do advocates of “enthusiasm” in religion have no interest in the needs of their fellow men? Are evangelicals so heavenly minded that they have no sense of their social responsibility? Critics often answer “yes” to these questions. This book will not silence all such critics. But if they carefully consider what the author has to say, their conclusions will be greatly modified. The author clearly demonstrates that revivals in one period of English history – the eighteenth – did result in tremendous social improvement. He shows that converts won in the Wesleyan and Evangelical revivals were largely responsible for stopping the English slave trade and abolition of slavery throughout the Empire. They also took the lead in prison reform, emancipation of the insane, and enacting more human labor legislation. The spotlight centers most often on the efforts of Wesley, Wilberforce, and Shaftsebury, but lesser actors in the drama are not ignored. Dr. Cairns shows that the motivation of these great leaders to improve the society of which they were a part is found in their personal faith in God. And he issues a clarion call for twentieth century saints to take a lesson in social action from their eighteenth and nineteenth century forebears.

Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Tom Turpie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004298681
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Kind Neighbours: Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Tom Turpie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explore devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages.

Saints and Social Justice

Author : Brandon Vogt
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1612783414
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Social Justice written by Brandon Vogt and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic social teaching has explosive power for changing not just individuals, but whole societies. And it's the saints who light the fuse. - Brandon Vogt The value of human life. The call to family and community. Serving the poor. The rights of workers. Care for creation. The church has always taught certain undeniable truths that can and should affect our society. But over the years, these teachings have been distorted, misunderstood, and forgotten. With the help of fourteen saints, it's time we reclaim Catholic social teaching and rediscover it through the lives of those who best lived it out. Follow in the saints' footsteps, learn from their example, and become the spark of authentic social justice that sets the world on fire. Learn from heroes like: Bl. Teresa of Calcutta St. Peter Claver St. Frances of Rome St. Roque Gonzalez Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati St. Damien of Molokai St. John Paul II Goodreads Review for Saints and Social Justice Reviews from Goodreads.com

Soldiers of Christ

Author : Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043350
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Christ written by Thomas F. X. Noble and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Ties

Author : Leia Thorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781079298956
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Dark Ties written by Leia Thorne and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He calls us his broken saints. And that's what I am...or was. Broken. Until Gage Astor stole my heart and introduced me to a whole new seductive world--one with secrets and intrigue and money. So much money. Money buys everything, even your reputation at Brighton Saints Academy, an exclusive high school for the elite. I'm Remi St. James, and I'm new money. I don't belong here, but the Broken Saints accepted me, molded me, shaped me into a stunning creature that slays life. Enter Sawyer, Palmer, Rush, and Emry. The secret society amid Brighton Saints. The most beautiful and powerful. The only thing more valuable to them than money is secrets. And oh, Brighton Saints is full of secrets. We all have secrets... After I'm initiated into the Broken Saints, that's when the fun (and fear) really begins. I see things and hear things and do things no high school girl should ever be subjected to. And they make me believe it's all my idea... I'm a toy to them. It's all a twisted game, and I don't even know if I want it to stop... I'm in too deep now. There might not be any hope. Gage is a god here; he won't let me leave his society. When he says you're his, you belong to him. Body, mind, and soul. Just like all of his Broken Saints. So I have to play their game. For now. I have to find a way out...before I lose myself to them completely.*This is the first book in the Broken Saints Society series. A dark high school romance.Books in the series: Dark TiesDangerous GirlsNefarious BoysMore to come..

Saints and Their Cults

Author : Stephen Wilson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521311816
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Their Cults written by Stephen Wilson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been translated from French including a pioneering study by Robert Hertz, one of Durkheim's most eminent pupils. The editor provides a wide-ranging general and historical introduction, and a 100- page annotated bibliography covering material on the subject in all disciplines and in four main languages.

Online with Saints

Author : Michel Remery
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN 13 : 1681926830
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Online with Saints written by Michel Remery and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you could meet a saint. Whom would you choose? Online with Saints invites you to virtually encounter more than one hundred saints from around the world. Women and men, carpenters and scholars, mothers and popes, princes and paupers. This book is filled with the stories of real people who strived for holiness in their everyday lives. Their stories are linked to modern questions, and together with these saints you can find the answers. The accompanying free app Online with Saints contains social media profiles for 100-plus saints, with fascinating biographical facts, quotes, prayers, and captivating evidence of their personal faith and love of God and neighbor. The app provides an augmented reality encounter. Use your phone to scan the image of a saint in the book, then watch the saint tell his or her story. Every saint has a unique story to tell about his or her journey to heaven. Each found his or her vocation in life in a different way. Their lives remind us that God has a plan for each and every one of us. If we are prepared to follow his will, he will make saints of us, too.

Wondrous in His Saints

Author : Philip M. Soergel
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520302419
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wondrous in His Saints written by Philip M. Soergel and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known pilgrimage literature yields a vivid portrait of religion before, during, and after the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. These "advertisements," combining testimonies of miracles with fantastic legends about shrines, fueled the conflict between Catholics and Protestants and helped shape a distinctive Catholic historical consciousness. Soergel stresses the power of the printed word as a defense of traditional authority, testing other historians' assertions about the neglect of printing and literacy in the Counter-Reformation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

"Saints, Sinners, and Sisters "

Author : JaneL. Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550276
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Saints, Sinners, and Sisters " written by JaneL. Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays, Saints, Sinners, and Sisters showcases the diverse questions currently being asked by gender scholars dealing with French, Netherlandish and German art from the medieval and early modern periods. Moving beyond the reclamation of personalities and oeuvres of 'lost' female artists, the contributors pose questions about gender and sex within specific historical contexts, addressing such issues as intended audience, use of the object, and patronage. These avenues of inquiry intersect with larger cultural questions concerning societal control of women. The book's three sections, 'Saints,' 'Sinners,' and 'Sisters, Wives, Poets' are each preceded by a concise introductory essay, detailing themes and offering reflective comparisons of theses and information. In 'Saints,' contributors look at women who were positive exemplar used by society to uphold standards. In the second section, the essays focus on the power of women's sexuality. The third section expands beyond the customary dichotomous division of the first two to examine women in diverse roles not widely studied as positions of women in those times. This final section expands our definitions of women's responsibilities and realigns them historically; it argues that women, and thus gender, need to be understood within a much broader historical context and beyond simplistic approaches sometimes superimposed by present-day readers on past times. This volume answers an acute need for research on the art of Northern Europe prior to the 20th century, and highlights the possibilities of new directions in the field. The effect of the new scholarship presented here is to broaden the discursive field, allowing fluidity of disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a volume that is illuminating to historians of more than art alone.