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Saints and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Striving for remembrance book cover

1st Edition

Saints and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Striving for remembrance

Edited By Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Linda G. Jones Copyright 2020
292 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge
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A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious... Read more

1 Introduction. Alexandre Coello and Linda G. Jones

Part I: Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

2 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Judaism 

Alexandra Cuffel

3 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Christianitnity

Linda G. Jones

4 Holiness, Saints, and Sanctity in Islam
Linda G. Jones

Part II: Case Studies

5 Missionary martyrdoms and relics in the Mariana Islands: the cases of Jesuit Fathers Luis de Medina and Father Manuel de Solórzano, SJ

Alexandre Coello de la Rosa

6 Models of Sanctity in the Medieval Islamic West: The Cases of Abu Ya‘za and al-Yu¿anisi”.
 Rachid El Hour


7 A Mudejar Community of Saints: Reconfiguring Sanctity among the Mudejars of Aragon (13th-14h c.)
Linda G. Jones

8 Masculinity, Sexuality, and Sanctity in the Ottoman Hagiographical Narratives: The Case of the Velayet-name-i ¿aci Bektas-i Veli

Ozgen Felek

9 Jewish Saints and Sanctuaries in Colonial Morocco

Maite Ojeda Mata 

10 Remembering a Moroccan Female Jewish Saint: Sol Hachuel through Her Nephew’s Letters to the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1880-1897)

Araceli González Vázquez

11 Sufi Sainthood, Modernity, and Reformism: Sheikh Bin ‘Aliwa and the Colonial Maghreb”.
Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste

12 Concluding Remarks. Alexandre Coello and Linda G. Jones.

13 Contributors.

Biography

Alexandre Coello is Senior Professor in the Department of Humanities　at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. His main lines of research are dedicated to ecclesiastical history, particularly focused on colonial Peru and the Philippines. He is (co)editor of the Journal Illes i Imperis/Islands and Empires and his recent publications include Jesuits at the Margins (2016).



Linda G. Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities　at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. She has published widely on the subject of comparitive religious studies, particularly preaching, and is also the Vice-President of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society.

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