Sainthood and Race - Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh

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.

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Molly H. (Georgia State University Bassett, Molly H. Lloyd Bassett
• Assisted by: Molly H. Bassett (Editor), Vincent W. Lloyd (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2014
• EAN: 9780415740128
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74012-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; History, Sociology, Popular Culture, RELIGION / General, Anthropology, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Christianity, History of Religion