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Hagiography and religious truth : case studies in the Abrahamic and Dharmic traditions / edited by Rico G. Monge, Kerry P.C. San Chirico, and Rachel J. Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781474235792
  • 1474235794
  • 9781474235785
  • 1474235786
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hagiography and religious truth.DDC classification:
  • 206/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BL488 .H34 2016
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 -- Theoretical Considerations; Chapter 1 Saints, Truth, and the "Use and Abuse" of Hagiography; Modern History and the Disclosure of Truth: Von Humboldt, Von Ranke, and Delehaye; Friedrich Nietzsche, Hayden White, and the End of Objectivity; Chakrabarty and Orsi: An Abundant Provincialization of History; Ricoeurian Hermeneutics, Religious Truth, and Hagiography; Chapter 2 Devotion, Critique, and the Reading of Christian Saints' Lives; Postsecular theory and Hagiographical Devotion.
Defining HagiographyChapter 3 Sacred Narrative and The Truth: What Does It Mean If It Did Not Happen? ; Introduction; Hagiography; Part 2 -- Case Studies in Dharmic Traditions; Chapter 4 Imagining Hagiographies in Chhattisgarh; Introduction; Hagiographies in the Hindu Context; Personal Context; Hagiographies in Chhattisgarh; Gurū Ghāsīdās and the Satnāmī Samāj; Parasurām and the Rāmnāmī Samāj; Changing Times, Changing Stories; Imagining Gurū Ghāsīdās on the Worldwide Web; Iconic Imagining of the Guru; Parasurām's Story Today; Conclusion.
Chapter 5 Turning Tomb to Temple: Hagiography, Sacred Space, and Ritual Activity in a Thirteenth-Century Hindu ShrineJñāneśvar as Mūrti; Architectural Configuration; Āḷandī in Jñāneśvar's Life and Samādhi; Tale of a Tree; Movement through the Space; Jñāneśvar Samādhi Compound as Temple; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6 From Legend to Flesh and Bone: The Reenactment of a Tantric Narrative; The Emanation Prototype; The Foundation for the Emanation; The Vow to Emanate; The Embodied Emanation; The Emanation Multiplies; The Posthumous Emanations; The Eternal Return of the Emanations
Emanating Then and Now"Believing" in Vimalamitra; Enacting Fictions; Enacting Spiritual Biographies; Enacting Heroic Deeds; Conclusion; Part 3 -- Case Studies in Abrahamic Traditions; Chapter 7 The Transmission of Virtue in the Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş Veli: The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal1; The Nature of the Alevi Tradition; The Alevi Tradition as an Example Tarikat Shi'ism; Devotional Allegiance in Shi'i Islam; Devotional Allegiance in the Sufi Tradition; The Imams and the Evliya as "Root Paradigms"; Perfecting Humanity in the Alevi Tradition; The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal 18.
Interpreting the TextConclusion; Chapter 8 A Global Intercessor: Triumphalism and Reconciliation in the Services of St. John Maximovich; A Brief Biographical Sketch; The Service to St. John: Hagiographical Categories8; Hagiographical Themes in Hymnography: Antecedents; Triumphalism in the Services of St. John Maximovich; Reconciliation; Conclusion; Chapter 9 "King-slaves" in South Africa: Shrines, Ritual, & Resistance1; Introduction; Hagiography, Historiography, and Truth; Islamic Hagiography; Cape Town Saints and Kramats; Ziyarat (shrine visitation) and its connection to hajj; Conclusion.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1293540

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2016).

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 -- Theoretical Considerations; Chapter 1 Saints, Truth, and the "Use and Abuse" of Hagiography; Modern History and the Disclosure of Truth: Von Humboldt, Von Ranke, and Delehaye; Friedrich Nietzsche, Hayden White, and the End of Objectivity; Chakrabarty and Orsi: An Abundant Provincialization of History; Ricoeurian Hermeneutics, Religious Truth, and Hagiography; Chapter 2 Devotion, Critique, and the Reading of Christian Saints' Lives; Postsecular theory and Hagiographical Devotion.

Defining HagiographyChapter 3 Sacred Narrative and The Truth: What Does It Mean If It Did Not Happen? ; Introduction; Hagiography; Part 2 -- Case Studies in Dharmic Traditions; Chapter 4 Imagining Hagiographies in Chhattisgarh; Introduction; Hagiographies in the Hindu Context; Personal Context; Hagiographies in Chhattisgarh; Gurū Ghāsīdās and the Satnāmī Samāj; Parasurām and the Rāmnāmī Samāj; Changing Times, Changing Stories; Imagining Gurū Ghāsīdās on the Worldwide Web; Iconic Imagining of the Guru; Parasurām's Story Today; Conclusion.

Chapter 5 Turning Tomb to Temple: Hagiography, Sacred Space, and Ritual Activity in a Thirteenth-Century Hindu ShrineJñāneśvar as Mūrti; Architectural Configuration; Āḷandī in Jñāneśvar's Life and Samādhi; Tale of a Tree; Movement through the Space; Jñāneśvar Samādhi Compound as Temple; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6 From Legend to Flesh and Bone: The Reenactment of a Tantric Narrative; The Emanation Prototype; The Foundation for the Emanation; The Vow to Emanate; The Embodied Emanation; The Emanation Multiplies; The Posthumous Emanations; The Eternal Return of the Emanations

Emanating Then and Now"Believing" in Vimalamitra; Enacting Fictions; Enacting Spiritual Biographies; Enacting Heroic Deeds; Conclusion; Part 3 -- Case Studies in Abrahamic Traditions; Chapter 7 The Transmission of Virtue in the Hagiography of Hacı Bektaş Veli: The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal1; The Nature of the Alevi Tradition; The Alevi Tradition as an Example Tarikat Shi'ism; Devotional Allegiance in Shi'i Islam; Devotional Allegiance in the Sufi Tradition; The Imams and the Evliya as "Root Paradigms"; Perfecting Humanity in the Alevi Tradition; The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal 18.

Interpreting the TextConclusion; Chapter 8 A Global Intercessor: Triumphalism and Reconciliation in the Services of St. John Maximovich; A Brief Biographical Sketch; The Service to St. John: Hagiographical Categories8; Hagiographical Themes in Hymnography: Antecedents; Triumphalism in the Services of St. John Maximovich; Reconciliation; Conclusion; Chapter 9 "King-slaves" in South Africa: Shrines, Ritual, & Resistance1; Introduction; Hagiography, Historiography, and Truth; Islamic Hagiography; Cape Town Saints and Kramats; Ziyarat (shrine visitation) and its connection to hajj; Conclusion.