Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies

Rondolino, Massimo A.

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“…8 Hollander (2020Hollander ( , 2021. These perspectives thoughtfully engage with and extend Rondolino's (Rondolino 2017). 9…”

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“…While I reject the postmodern critics' characterization of comparison as an impossible act of intellectual hubris, inevitably distorting the local and particular, I am convinced by their general call for an increase in scholarly reflexivity: a posture not coincidentally shared with all theoretically robust contemporary approaches to comparison in Religious Studies. 1 Indeed, well-meaning attempts to avoid terms with problematic etymologies or usage histories, as identified by these critiques, often fall victim to their own unquestioned assumptions, as Rondolino (2017) notes in the introduction to Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies:…”

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“…That said, it is striking how many of the interpretive strategies proposed by Hollander as part of an "unbound" hagiology also apply to the academic study of religious dreaming. To begin with, Hollander-following Rondolino (2017Rondolino ( , 2019 and others-focuses on hagiography as a process, as opposed to a textual genre. In this way, he decenters the hagiographical object, opting instead to focus on the historically, culturally, and politically inflected contexts in which people do things (narratively, ritually, experientially) with their exemplars.…”

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“…To foreshadow the results of these reflections, I would suggest that many similar cultural dynamics inform both dream-telling and hagiographical practice in religious communities, especially when one approaches hagiography as a process (as do Rondolino 2017and Hollander 2021). Moreover, given that exemplary individuals are often associated with acts of exemplary sleeping (whether via narratives of miraculous dream encounters or, obversely, stories of religiously-mandated insomnia), the gradually expanding toolbox of comparative hagiology-which members of our collective have been assembling and refining for more than five years-prove useful for addressing both.…”

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The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology

Jensen

2024

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This paper explores the potentially fruitful interplay between a set of practical and theoretical approaches developed to teach post-secondary students about accounts of dreams and of exemplars, in cases where these phenomena have been deemed significant by specific religious discourse communities. Incorporating insights from his participation in the Comparative Hagiology group, the author suggests—in particular—that the expanded perspective on hagiography proposed by Rondolino, Hollander, and others can serve as a fruitful vantage from which to survey both of these phenomena in the classroom, revealing some intriguing correspondences between them. The author concludes by proposing some ways that the comparative hagiological classroom could be a particularly productive learning environment, and one that directly addresses some of the challenges of contemporary post-secondary education (from both the instructors’ and students’ perspectives).

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The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology

Jensen

2024

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Hagiography Unbound: A Theory of Making and Using Holy Media

Hollander¹

2021

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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Hagiography is a scholarly category that has been used primarily to group textual sources that represent the lives of Christian saints. This article contends that the utility of hagiography and hagiographical far exceeds this commonplace usage, in terms of both the ways they entail broadly enacted cultural dynamics and their applicability beyond conventional disciplinary expectations of what constitutes representations of saints (or even religious content). The article provides a retheorization along two analytic vectors: (1) framing hagiography in terms of a field of many interconnected media rather than identifying it with texts alone, and (2) studying it in terms of the psychosocial processes (imagination, representation, and appropriation) that generate and mobilize understandings of holiness in the world rather than limiting it to the products that instantiate but do not exhaust these processes.

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Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach

Yep

2022

Method Theory Study Relig.

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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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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies

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The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology

The Oneiro- and the Hagio-: Teaching about Dreams from the Standpoint of Comparative Hagiology

Hagiography Unbound: A Theory of Making and Using Holy Media

Emotion and Islamic Hagiology: A Post-taxonomic Approach

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