Author: Louis GinzbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Students, Scholars and Saints
Author: Louis GinzbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
Author: Nancy Scheper-HughesPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224809
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Saints and Scholars
Author: Terry EagletonStudents, scholars and saints
Author: Louis GinzbergStudents, Scholars, Saints
Author: Louis GinzbergSaints
Author: Françoise MeltzerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226519937
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940
Author: Thomas W. SimpsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469628643
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.
Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars
Author: Robert A. HerreraPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This festschrift brings together authors from various countries who are specialists in different disciplines within the humanities and who share a common vision of human life. These essays in philosophical speculation, political theory, literary criticism, and historical analysis are rooted in the western cultural heritage and Christian religious tradition. Major figures examined include Aristotle, Aquinas, Thomas More, John of the Cross, Donoso Cortes, and the Spanish Carlists. The interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan nature of this festschrift reflects the approach and style of the man honored, Dr. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. A special feature of the volume is a selection of critical studies of Professor Wilhelmsen's own work.
Saints, Statues, and Stories
Author: James S. GriffithPublisher: Southwest Center
ISBN: 0816539618
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
"This book considers the history and aesthetics of religious artwork in official and traditional Catholic contexts, examining the role that this religious art plays in the northwestern state of Sonora, Mexico"--
Students, Scholars and Saints
Author: Louis GinzbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description