Profiling saints : : images of modern sanctity in a global world / / edited by Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai.

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Superior document:Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Refocus.
Physical Description:1 online resource (381 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai: Fantastic Saints and Where to Find Them: Why does Sanctity Matter?
  • Franco Motta: Sanctity and Modernity: Opposition or Agreement?
  • Section 1 Through the Saints: Understanding the Church across the Centuries
  • Thomas Santa Maria: Temptation, Torture, and Truth
  • Stefan Samerski: What about the Saints of the French Revolution?
  • Joris Geldhof: Modern Saints in the Roman Missal
  • Section 2 Visualizing Sanctity and the Sacred: Images and Promotion
  • Raphaèle Preisinger, Hannah Joy Friedman, Jonathan E. Greenwood, Wei Jiang, Lucía Querejazu Escobari: Promoting Sanctity by the Means of Artworks
  • Rachel Miller: Imagining the World through St Francis Xavier Imagery
  • Tamara Dominici, Antonio Gerace: From Book to Image
  • Section 3 Hagiographical Representations: The Jesuits
  • Shiri Roelofs: Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), the Louvain Lectures, and Economic Thought
  • Carlo Pelliccia: "Or voi conoscete qual sarà stata la santità del Saverio"
  • Section 4 Martyrs of Japan: Models, Emotions, and the Causes for Beatification and Canonization
  • Carla Tronu Montané: From 'Martyrs of Japan' to 'Japanese Martyrs'
  • Linda Zampol D'Ortia: Emotional Practices of Catholic Martyrdom in Early Modern Japan
  • Hitomi Omata Rappo: Profiling the Japanese Martyrs
  • Section 5 Vocation to Holiness: Three Case Studies from Early Modern Europe
  • Beatrice Saletti: Lucia Broccadelli da Narni in Ferrara
  • Lucio Biasiori: Holiness and Madness in Early Modern Florence
  • Patryk M. Ryczkowski: Like a Phoenix into the Ashes
  • Sabina Pavone: Sanctity in a Global World
  • Notes on Contributors.