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Hailing and Hallowing: Persian Hagiographies, Interpellation, and Learning How to Read

Religions, 2023
This essay discusses the pedagogical value of hagiology by examining how medieval Persian hagiographies can be used to explore the concept of “interpellation”: the process by which individuals are constituted as subjects in particular ideological systems.
William E. B. Sherman
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Saints and Celebrities

Religions
This article offers a pedagogical approach to introducing undergraduate students to hagiology by comparing medieval sanctity to modern celebrity. The bodies of saints and celebrities are important loci for the transmission of sanctity or celebrity from a
Kathleen M. Self
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A Preliminary Controlled Vocabulary for the Description of Hagiographic Texts

Religions, 2019
As a genre defined by its content rather than by its form, the extreme diversity of the kinds of texts that can be considered “hagiographic” often proves an impediment to the progress of comparative hagiology.
David M. DiValerio
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Saints across Traditions and Time Periods: Methods for Increasing Range and Reading in Comparative Frameworks

Religions, 2019
This paper offers a nascent attempt at best practices for the comparative method in a conference setting. Exploring the value in transcendence of traditions and specialization, it traces the preparation and outcome of a recent comparative hagiology panel
Todd E. French
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Kabir and Pedagogy: Teaching the Politics of Religion through the Hagiography of an Indian Saint

Religions
This essay discusses the virtues of hagiology-driven teaching and the pedagogical value of the saint in the religious studies classroom, focusing on how a series of class assignments and activities centered on the Indian devotional saint Kabir function ...
Patton Burchett
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Comparison as a Provisional Activity

Religions, 2020
The careers of many scholars in various disciplines have been focused on the study of hagiography, including that of the author. Yet, as those scholars have uncovered new knowledge and employed new interpretations of the materials at hand, the very ...
Nikolas O. Hoel
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Dialogue and Destabilization: An Index for Comparative Global Exemplarity

Religions, 2019
This reflection derives from a discussion that took place at the 2018 “Comparative Hagiology” pre-conference workshop of the American Academy of Religion. The goal during that meeting was to articulate points of dialogue for the comparison of
Sara Ritchey
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The state of the contemporary researches on Orthodox hagiology [PDF]

Elpis, 2013
Hagiology is relatively young branch of theology. It deals with issues related to the study of holiness from theological perspective. The modern state of research on Orthodox hagiology in Poland is not advanced.
Jarosław Charkiewicz, Charkiewicz Jarosław   +1 more
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‘Aspectual hagiology’ in the service of integrating linguistics with theological sciences

Slavica Slovaca
The article discuses the topic of integrating linguistic and theological research. The thesis was put forward that the plane for integrating research could be ‚aspect hagiology‘, covering the area of research on saints and sanctity and synthesizing ...
Katarzyna Parzych-blakiewicz
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Is Comparison Based on Translatable Formal Concepts?

Religions, 2020
Fully realized ethical and metaphysical concepts have intension and extension only within an historically situated epistemic tradition. Only people who live the epistemic tradition fully understand the concept and can accurately identify items that ...
Kevin Guilfoy
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