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2022
The Christian veneration of the saints inspired a prolific literary tradition that included narratives devoted to the virtuous lives, martyrdoms, and posthumous miracles of saints, as well as records relating to the transfer of relics and canonisation procedures.
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The Christian veneration of the saints inspired a prolific literary tradition that included narratives devoted to the virtuous lives, martyrdoms, and posthumous miracles of saints, as well as records relating to the transfer of relics and canonisation procedures.
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2019
The selection of various biblical tropes adopted in early Christian hagiography depended greatly upon its subjects, whether bishops, monks, nuns, martyrs, or confessors. In reading the lives of these model Christians, early Christian hagiography reflected the mind and values of its society.
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The selection of various biblical tropes adopted in early Christian hagiography depended greatly upon its subjects, whether bishops, monks, nuns, martyrs, or confessors. In reading the lives of these model Christians, early Christian hagiography reflected the mind and values of its society.
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2018
This chapter examines how the hagiographies of friends of God enable manifold readings that enable different forms of attachment to Islamic discourses of ethical self-care and spiritual wayfaring. On the one hand, these readings fully inhabit a mystically inclined Shiʻi tradition featuring proponents and detractors that are both powerful and ...
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This chapter examines how the hagiographies of friends of God enable manifold readings that enable different forms of attachment to Islamic discourses of ethical self-care and spiritual wayfaring. On the one hand, these readings fully inhabit a mystically inclined Shiʻi tradition featuring proponents and detractors that are both powerful and ...
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Hagiography Unbound: A Theory of Making and Using Holy Media
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2021Aaron T Hollander
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Pupil Memoirs as Hagiography in the Gurdjieff Work
Postscripts: the Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 2022Carole M Cusack
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Early Palaiologan Hagiography: “Old” and “New” Saints under the Shadow of Symeon Metaphrastes
AntiČna Drevnostʹ I Srednie Veka, 2022Lev Lukhovitskiy
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