A Preliminary Controlled Vocabulary for the Description of Hagiographic Texts

DiValerio, David M.

doi:10.3390/rel10100585

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“…The historical ties to Western Christianity render its ability to encompass the wide range of exemplary religious individuals in our world awkward at best. This issue has been carefully and fruitfully explored by a range of leading scholars in Hagiology (Hollander 2020;Rondolino 2017;Keune 2019;DiValerio 2019;Brown 1983;Hawley 1987;Rondolino 2019;Ritchey 2019). Even so, we have chosen to use the term in this paper as a signifier because it connects with a predominant culture in our context.…”

Section: "Saints" and "Religion": Refining Our Termsmentioning

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Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

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Forero Bucheli

2024

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This paper argues that a comparative study of saints is not only a useful classroom tool for historians and religionists, but an exceptionally powerful locus of pedagogical insight and cultural understanding. By reframing contemporary consumptive patterns, media representations, and power discourses as religious vectors of saintliness, the professor has an opportunity to explore and assess cultural values, rituals, beliefs, worldviews, communities, traditions, and meaning making in the contemporary college student’s world. By acknowledging the dangers and possibilities of the category of saint while reframing the ascetical impact on developing subjectivities, we propose six pedagogical examples of how this might best be deployed.

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Section: "Saints" and "Religion": Refining Our Termsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

French,

Forero Bucheli

2024

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Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach

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2022

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The study of emotion in Islamic hagiology remains largely uninterrogated, as visible in elliptical descriptions that classify particular texts, bodily gestures, or utterances as “emotive.” I advocate for a shift from taxonomic approaches to emotion to a focus on function in narrative hagiographies. I argue that emotion provides a rich analytic category for understanding the dynamic relationship between texts and bodies in the hagiographical process, as well as the multiplicity of bodies that are involved or implicated. To illustrate this framework, I provide readings of narratives in the sīra (biographies of Muḥammad) which depict bodily manifestations of awe when in Muḥammad’s presence. Endorsing the position that the hagiographical process is constantly under negotiation, these analyses reveal that emotional practices are crucial to understanding the relationality between exemplary persons, biographers, characters, and readers.

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A Preliminary Controlled Vocabulary for the Description of Hagiographic Texts

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

Comparative Methods for Teaching Contemporary and Ancient Saints

Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach

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