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Introduction | p. ix |
From Cuba with Saints | p. 1 |
St. Elvis | p. 35 |
Reviving the Fairy Tree: Tales of European Sanctity | p. 45 |
Transgressing the Self: Making Charismatic Saints | p. 73 |
On Naming Saints | p. 97 |
Patron Saint of the Incongruous: Rabbi Me'ir, the Talmud, and Menippean Satire | p. 127 |
Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World | p. 157 |
St. Dymphna and the Lunatics: The Advent of Moral Community Psychiatry | p. 191 |
On the Politics of Sainthood: Resistance and Mimicry in Postcolonial Morocco | p. 211 |
The Enchantment of Judaism: Israeli Anxieties and Puzzles | p. 235 |
Persuading the Absent Saint: Image and Performance in Marian Devotion | p. 253 |
Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or How St. Francis Received the Stigmata | p. 279 |
Re-Presenting a Contemporary Saint: Padre Pio of Pietrelcina | p. 309 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | p. 321 |
'Lycidas': A Wolf in Saint's Clothing | p. 335 |
The Invisibility of the Saint | p. 355 |
Beyond Compare: Pagan Saint and Christian God in Late Antiquity | p. 363 |
Apophthegmata | p. 393 |
Index | p. 397 |
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