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| Author | : Ernest Gellner |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
"[Ernest Gellner] began the association with Morocco and the Berbers of the Central High Atlas that resulted in Saints of the Atlas. It was a study of how holy men kept a fragile and broken peace among the shepherds who moved each spring from the plains of the ante-Atlas into the high pastures, and back again each autumn: a hundred thousand people, a million or so sheep traversing the bottle-necks of the mountain passes twice each year. It was an ideal opportunity for theft and rustling, and the Saints were there to maintain the peace without establishing any acceptable claim to political control. His book, criticised by scholars who have worked in Moroccan archives, remains important reading because it analyses so clearly the ways in which pastoral peoples, who had been in contact with states for a couple of millennia, maintained an ideology of total rejection of the Moroccan state, and a determination not to make anything of the kind themselves. Their practice was more often than not in accord with the ideology."--Http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/gellner/JDavisObit.html (Feb. 23, 2011.).
| Author | : Françoise Meltzer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2011-12-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0226519937 |
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.
| Author | : Colin Wilson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
This account of holy sites and mysterious ruins aims to capture the spirit of the places themselves. It explains their myths and legends and shows their continuing importance down the ages. Part One examines over 100 key sites and shows how they came to be regarded as sacred and their subsequent history. The sites are divided geographically into sections, such as Africa and the Middle East, Europe and Australia, and the Pacific. Each of these areas is introduced by a hand-drawn map showing all of the sites described and other areas of interest, such as ancient burial grounds, temples and natural sites. Part Two is a map-based gazetteer of over 1000 sacred sites. The sites are plotted over 20 maps, which are then followed by listings giving information about each holy place. The maps show the location of each site and the period in which it was built or used.
| Author | : Christine Barrely |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2011-03-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1452105693 |
Learn about the lives and works of over eighty saints in this collection, featuring ninety-two colorfully illustrated holy cards. How does Saint Christopher keep us safe when we travel? Why is Saint Patrick always depicted with a nest of snakes? How did Cecilia come to be the patron saint of music? These wonders and more are explained in this treasure of a book. The perfect book for the devout or any religious occasion, this captivating collection recounts the extra-ordinary legends, heartrending stories, joys, and sorrows of the most beloved saints, from the famous to the mysteriously obscure. Beautifully illustrated with historical pictures from prayer books and missals, this elegant keepsake is a joy to have.
| Author | : Vincent J. Cornell |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 650 |
| Release | : 2010-06-28 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 029278970X |
In premodern Moroccan Sufism, sainthood involved not only a closeness to the Divine presence (walaya) but also the exercise of worldly authority (wilaya). The Moroccan Jazuliyya Sufi order used the doctrine that the saint was a "substitute of the prophets" and personification of a universal "Muhammadan Reality" to justify nearly one hundred years of Sufi involvement in Moroccan political life, which led to the creation of the sharifian state. This book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufism through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries C.E. and a comprehensive study of Moroccan Sufi doctrine, focusing on the concept of sainthood. Vincent J. Cornell engages in a sociohistorical analysis of Sufi institutions, a critical examination of hagiography as a source for history, a study of the Sufi model of sainthood in relation to social and political life, and a sociological analysis of more than three hundred biographies of saints. He concludes by identifying eight indigenous ideal types of saint that are linked to specific forms of authority. Taken together, they define sainthood as a socioreligious institution in Morocco.
| Author | : Helen Walker Homan |
| Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780898705171 |
A Vision Book about St. Francis and St. Clare, the two very popular saints of Assisi. Helen Homan has captured all the excitement and beauty of the lives of these saints from their childhood growing up together in Assisi to their profound conversion and lifelong influence�indeed centuries-long influence�on the whole world through their radical living of the Gospel and founding of two great religious orders, the Franciscans and the Poor Clares. Combining the stories of Francis and Clare in one volume makes for a book that will be of great interest to both boys and girls of a wide age span. Illustrated. Cover art by Chris Pelicano This book is now part of Renaissance Learning's Accelerated Reader program. Quizzes are currently available.
| Author | : Tim Dowley |
| Publisher | : Catholic Book Publishing Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780899426556 |
A completely new Bible Atlas for the Bible reader and student, with 79 full-color computer-generated original maps of Bible lands. The maps are carefully annotated to show the routes of the great travelers such as Abraham, Moses, and Paul, major battles, migrations, and invasions. They also feature explanatory captions detailing the significance of places flagged. Richly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, charts, and diagrams, with the text retelling clearly the story of God's people from the call of Abraham to the early spread of the Christian Church. Book jacket.
| Author | : University of Cambridge, Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic |
| Publisher | : Twayne Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780953269778 |
| Author | : Lawrence G. Lovasik |
| Publisher | : Catholic Book Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780899422336 |
Picture Book of Saints by popular Catholic Book, Publishing author Lawrence G. Lovasik, SVD, contains the lives of over 100 popular saints. Written, in a simple, informal style that will delight parents, teachers, and children, the life of each saint is, beautifully illustrated in full color. Picture Book of, Saints from Catholic Book Publishing comes gift boxed, and is durably bound in burgundy bonded leather.
| Author | : Marie Manilla |
| Publisher | : HMH |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2014-06-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 054413348X |
Catholic lore, American tales, and Sicilian superstition blend in this “clever, funny, heartbreaking, and heartwarming” novel (Publishers Weekly). Born with unruly red hair, a sharp tongue, and wine-colored marks all over her body—marks that oddly mimick a map of the world and make her subject to endless ridicule—Garnet Ferrari would hardly consider herself blessed. So when an emissary from the Vatican shows up at her door, convinced that her seeming ability to cure the skin ailments of others qualifies her for sainthood, she’s not quite convinced—or pleased. Garnet sets off on a quest to better understand who she is and where she and her unusual gifts came from. Tracing a twisted path that leads from Sicily to West Virginia, poverty to riches, romance to loss, reality to mythology, Garnet uncovers a truth far more powerful than any dermatological miracle: that the things of which we are most ashamed often become our greatest strengths. “A cleareyed, touching fable of a girl learning the hard truths about herself and others.” —Kirkus Reviews
