Saints and Their Cults - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints and Their Cults write by Stephen Wilson. This book was released on 1985. Saints and Their Cults available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been translated from French including a pioneering study by Robert Hertz, one of Durkheim's most eminent pupils. The editor provides a wide-ranging general and historical introduction, and a 100- page annotated bibliography covering material on the subject in all disciplines and in four main languages.
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World
Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World write by Margaret Jean Cormack. This book was released on 2007. Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Scholars representing the fields of history, art history, religious studies, and communications contribute their perspectives in this interdisciplinary collection, also notable as the first English language study of many of the saints treated in the volume. Several chapters chart the changing images and meanings of holy people as their veneration traveled from the Old World to the New; others describe sites and devotions that developed in the Americas. The ways that a group feels connected to the holy figure by ethnicity or regionalism proves to be a critical factor in a saint's reception, and many contributors discuss the tensions that develop between ecclesiastical authorities and communities of devotees.
The Cult of the Saints
The Cult of the Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of the Saints write by Peter Brown. This book was released on 2014-11-12. The Cult of the Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new edition of the “brilliantly original and highly sophisticated” study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire (Library Journal). In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly connection, and their veneration is a fascinating window into the cultural mood of a region in transition. Brown challenges the long-held two-tier idea of religion that separated the religious practices of the sophisticated elites from those of the superstitious masses, instead arguing that the cult of the saints crossed boundaries and played a dynamic part in both the Christian faith and the larger world of late antiquity. He shows how men and women living in harsh and sometimes barbaric times relied upon the holy dead to obtain justice, forgiveness, and power, and how a single sainted hair could inspire great thinkers and great artists. An essential text by one of the foremost scholars of European history, this expanded edition includes a new preface from Brown, which presents new ideas based on subsequent scholarship. “Informative…demonstrates once again Brown’s genius for sharing with his readers the fruits of not only his own painstaking and meticulous scholarship but also his penetrating understanding of the evolution of Western culture as a whole.”—Religious Studies
The Cult of the Saints
The Cult of the Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cult of the Saints write by Saint John Chrysostom. This book was released on 2006. The Cult of the Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The cult of the saints is a phenomenon that expanded rapidly in the fourth century, and John Chrysostom's homilies are important witnesses to its growth. In this volume, Wendy Mayer investigates the liturgical, topographical, and pastoral aspects that marked the martyr cult at Antioch and Constantinople in John's time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul
Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul write by Raymond Van Dam. This book was released on 2011-11-12. Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life. Here Raymond Van Dam uses accounts of miracles performed by SS. Martin, Julian, and Hilary to provide a vivid and comprehensive depiction of some of the most influential saints' cults. Viewed within the context of ongoing tensions between paganism and Christianity and between Frankish kings and bishops, these cults tell much about the struggle for authority, the forming of communities, and the concept of sin and redemption in late Roman Gaul. Van Dam begins by describing the origins of the three cults, and discusses the career of Bishop Gregory of Tours, who benefited from the support of various patron saints and in turn promoted their cults. He then treats the political and religious dimensions of healing miracles--including their relation to Catholic theology and their use by bishops to challenge royal authority--and of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. The miracle stories, collected mainly by Gregory of Tours, appear in their first complete English translations.
