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Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-Signifying Cults

Rewriting Holiness: Reconfiguring Vitae, Re-Signifying Cults

Gray, Madeleine

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Series: Kings College London Medieval Studies (Kclms), Book 25

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismReligion General

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ISBN10: 0953983897
ISBN13: 9780953983896
Publisher: Kings College London Clams
Published: Jun 16 2017
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Ranging from Ireland to India and from the first to the third millennium, this collection brings together essays written from the perspective of gender, politics and national and cultural identities as well as the sociology of religion.

Saints are more than distant figures from legends and wall paintings. Their lives and cults have been rewritten over and over again to suit changing cultural preconceptions and social and political agendas. The obscure Cambro-Breton saint Armel became a badge of loyalty to the Tudor dynasty; Eastern European countries have competed to lay claim to Cyril and Methodius, founding fathers of eastern Christianity; the Indian mystic and poet Kabir came from a Muslim background but was appropriated by both Hindus and Sikhs. And perhaps most bizarrely, right-wing groups in England march under the badge of the Middle Eastern saint George.

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