Sainthood and Race (eBook, ePUB)

Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh
Redaktion: Bassett, Molly H.; Lloyd, Vincent W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. What happens when the category of sainthood is interrogated and inflected by the problematic category of race?

Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh explores this complicated relationship by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint's body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and universality by combining both theoretical and ethnographic studies of saints and race across a wide range of subjects within the humanities. Additionally, the book's group of emerging and established religion scholars enhances this discussion of sainthood and race by integrating topics such as gender, community, and colonialism across a variety of historical, geographical, and religious contexts. This volume raises provocative questions for scholars and students interested in the intersection of religion and race today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317808725
• Artikelnr.: 41502400

Autorenporträt

Molly H. Bassett is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University, US Vincent W. Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, US

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Molly H. Bassett and Vincent W. Lloyd 1. An African Saint in
Medieval Europe: The Black Saint Maurice and the Enigma of Racial Sanctity
Geraldine Heng 2. The Threefold Man: Lavater, Physiognomy, and the Rise of
the Western Icon Brian Bantum 3. The Recanonization of Saint Cyprian: A
Deep History of Black Religion and Racialism Jared Hickman 4. The
Interspecies Logic of Race in Colonial Peru: San Martín de Porres' Animal
Brotherhood Chris Garces 5. Cuba's Virgin of Charity on the Color Continuum
Jalane Schmidt 6. Saffron Saint of the Most Spiritual Race: Sundar Singh
and the Western Oriental Christ Timothy Dobe 7. Racialized Crossings:
Coptic Orthodoxy and Global Christianities Angie Heo 8. The "Desolated
Center": Baby Suggs, holy, in Toni Morrison's Beloved Pamela M. Hall 9. The
Post-Racial Saint? From Barack Obama to Paul of Tarsus Vincent W. Lloyd
10. The Pre-Racial Saint? Ma(r)king Aztec God-Bodies Molly H. Bassett