The Monastic Dimension of Identity Politics - Global Case Studies from the Premodern Period

This volume comparatively explores how members of "monastic" communities, broadly understood, developed practical strategies for the construction of identity across a range of religious traditions in the greater regions of premodern Europe and Asia. In particular, it seeks to understand how the production, distribution, and reception of hagiographic material (written, visual, and performative) served as a tool for the implementation of "monastic" dynamics of legitimation. This is accomplished by pursuing and developing a two-fold approach. At an empirical level, the volume expands our scholarly understanding of the cross-cultural processes that characterize religious communities' notions of identity. At a meta-level, it furthers a re-evaluation of our taxonomy as it challenges established notions of categories such as "monk/monastic" and "hagiography."

Info autore

Marco Papasidero ================ Marco Papasidero is Assistant Professor of History of Christianity and Churches at the University of Palermo. Dean Accardi ============ Dean Accardi is Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College. Emilia Jamroziak ================ Emilia Jamroziak is Professor of Medieval Religious History at the University of Leeds.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Dean Accardi (Editore), Dean (Connecticut College Accardi (Editore), Emilia Jamroziak (Editore), Emilia (Professor of Medieval Religious History Jamroziak (Editore), Marco Papasidero (Editore), Marco (University of Palermo) Papasidero (Editore)
• Editore: Arc Humanities Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.11.2024
• EAN: 9781641893947
• ISBN: 978-1-64189-394-7
• Pagine: 144
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 676 g
• Serie: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro