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Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2022 Abstract The study of emotion in Islamic hagiology remains largely uninterrogated, as visible in elliptical descriptions that classify particular texts, bodily gestures, or utterances as “emotive.” I advocate for a shift from taxonomic approaches to emotion to a focus on function in narrative hagiographies. I argue that emotion provides a rich analytic
Stephanie Yep
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INTRODUCTION TO WELSH HAGIOLOGY
Blackfriars, 1948 The present revival of Catholicism in Wales would be incomplete without the old devotion to the early Welsh Saints, of whose constant intercession for their native land we now begin to see the fruit. Though their cultus was forbidden at the Reformation, they have kept their place in the affection of the Welsh people; and the increased knowledge of ...
J. Barrett Davies
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Hauntology, Hagiology, and Archaeology on the Battlefields of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico
, 2023 Ghosts, apparitions, and people-as-phantasms have been said to haunt battlefields for as long as armed conflict has occurred. While archaeologists have assiduously and systematically avoided the investigation of these phenomena, the study of “the spectral” has gained increasing attention from anthropologists in recent years, who have championed its ...
Matthew Liebmann
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The Science of Possession: Conscience and Hagiology in Early Stuart England
, 2001 Following the execution of King Charles I on 29 January 1649, there appeared an anonymous pamphlet entitled A Miracle of Miracles: Wrought by the Blood of King Charles the First, of happy Memory. This curious chapbook narrated the fate of a young Deptford woman who had contracted an untreatable strain of scrofula, the ‘Kings Evill’: ‘thus was the poore
Michael Morgan Holmes
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Philosophy, Hagiology and the Early Byzantine Origins of Purgatory
Studies in Church History, 2009 On 8 June 1438, the Council of Ferrara-Florence began proceedings aimed at the reunion of the Eastern and Western Churches. One of the first issues discussed was the Latin doctrine of purgatory. This article examines a particular moment in the divergence of eschatological doctrine between the Latin, Greek and Syriac Churches – indeed, representatives ...
Matthew J. Dal Santo
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The Idea of Innocent Martyrdom in Late Tenth- and Eleventh-century English Hagiology
Studies in Church History, 1993 Kings and princes who were classed as ‘innocent martyrs’ or ‘passion-sufferers’ because they were thought to have been murdered in Christlike circumstances were known in many parts of Europe in the Middle Ages. This paper is about six Anglo-Saxon saints of this type, who are also distinguished by their youth.
Paul Antony Hayward
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