Profiling Saints

Images of Modern Sanctity in a Global World

380 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

“Profiling Saints” follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. “Profiling Saints” looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.

• Reihe: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)
• ISBN: 9783525573563
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2023
• Genre: Religion, Theologie/Christentum
• Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Mitherausgegeben von: Christopher B. Brown
• Herausgegeben von: Elisa Frei
• Mitherausgegeben von: Tamara Dominici, Lucio Biasiori, Elisa Frei, Joris Geldhof, Antonio Gerace, GLOBECOSAL team, Universität Zürich Kunsthistorisches Institut, Rachel Miller, Franco Motta, Rappo Hitomi Omata, Carlo Pelliccia, Eleonora Rai, Shiri Roelofs, Patryk Ryczkowski, Beatrice Saletti, Stefan Samerski, Thomas Santa Maria, Carla Tronu Montané, Linda Zampol d’Ortia, Sabina Pavone, Eleonora Rai, Günter Frank, Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer, Tarald Rasmussen, Violet Soen, Zsombor Tóth, Günther Wassilowsky, Siegrid Westphal