Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh

ISBN-13: 9781138547056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Molly H. Bassett; Vincent W. Lloyd

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This book explores the complicated relationship between sainthood and race by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint’s body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and universality by combining both theoretical and ethnographic studies of saints and race across a wide range of subjects within the humanities.

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Introduction  Molly H. Bassett and Vincent W. Lloyd  1. An African Saint in Medieval Europe: The Black Saint Maurice and the Enigma of Racial Sanctity  Geraldine Heng  2. The Threefold Man: Lavater, Physiognomy, and the Rise of the Western Icon  Brian Bantum  3. The Recanonization of Saint Cyprian: A Deep History of Black Religion and Racialism  Jared Hickman  4. The Interspecies Logic of Race in Colonial Peru: San Martín de Porres’ Animal Brotherhood  Chris Garces  5. Cuba’s Virgin of Charity on the Color Continuum  Jalane Schmidt  6. Saffron Saint of the Most Spiritual Race: Sundar Singh and the Western Oriental Christ  Timothy Dobe  7. Racialized Crossings: Coptic Orthodoxy and Global Christianities  Angie Heo  8. The "Desolated Center": Baby Suggs, holy, in Toni Morrison’s Beloved  Pamela M. Hall  9. The Post-Racial Saint? From Barack Obama to Paul of Tarsus  Vincent W. Lloyd  10. The Pre-Racial Saint? Ma(r)king Aztec God-Bodies  Molly H. Bassett