Profiling saints : images of modern sanctity in a global world /

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Imprint:	Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2023] ©2023
Description:	380 pages : chiefly color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Refo500 Academic Studies ; volume 97 Refo500 academic studies ; v. 97.
Subject:	Sanctification -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. Christian hagiography -- History. Christian saints -- Cult.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13151043

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Other authors / contributors:	Frei, Elisa, 1982- editor. Rai, Eleonora, editor.
ISBN:	3525573561 9783525573563
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.

Table of Contents:

Fantastic saints and where to find them : why does sanctity matter? Preface to Profiling saints / Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai
Sanctity and modernity : opposition or agreement? An introduction to Profiling saints / Franco Motta
Section 1. Through the saints : undersanding the Church across the centuries
Temptation, torture, and truth. Philip Neri and reforming Catholic Rome / Thomas Santa Maria
What about the saints of the French Revolution? : canonization and beatification after 1789 / Stefan Samerski
Modern saints in the Roman Missal. An exploration of the Proprium de Sanctis / Joris Geldhof
Section 2. Visualizing sanctity and the sacred : images and promotion
Promoting sanctity by the means of artworks. The GLOBECOSAL Project / Raphaèle Preisinger, Hannah Joy Friedman, Jonathan E. Greenwood, Wei Jiang, Lucia Querejazu Escobari
Imagining the world through St Francis Xavier imagery. A case study in Quito / Rachel Miler
From book to image. Molanus and the Netherlandish holy images / Timara Dominici, Antonio Gerace
Section 3. Hagiographical representations : the Jesuits
Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), the Louvain Lectures, and economic thought. Image and impact of a saint viewed from an underestimated perspective / Shiri Roelofs
"Or voi conoscete qual sarà stata la santità del Saverio". The Panegyric by Eriprando Maria Giuliari (1728-1805) / Carla Pelliccia
Section 4. Martyrs of Japan : models, emotions, and the causes for beatification and canonization
From 'martyrs of Japan" to 'Japanese martyrs'. Models of sanctity and diversity in the canonization causes for martyrs of Japan / Carla Tronu Montané
Emotional practices of Catholic martyrdom in early modern Japan / Linda Zampol D'Ortia
Profiling the Japanese martyrs. The beatification process of the twenty-six martyrs of Nagasaki (1597-1627)
Section 5. Vocation to holiness : three case studies from early modern Europe
Lucia Broccadelli da Narni in Ferrara. The short season of a living saint, the changing memories of the biographers / Beatrice Saletti
Holiness and madness in early modern Florence / Lucio Biasiori
Like a phoenix into the ashes. Christological and Jesuit profile of Uniate martyrdom in Andrzej Młodzianowski's emblematic Vita (1675) of Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580-1623)
Sanctity in a global world. Continuity and discontinuity in the early modern age. Conclusions to Profiling saints / Sabina Pavone.

Profiling saints : images of modern sanctity in a global world /

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