Afterlives of the saints, stories from the ends of faith, Colin Dickey
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Afterlives of the saints, stories from the ends of faith, Colin Dickey
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Includes bibliographical references
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Afterlives of the saints
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Colin Dickey
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stories from the ends of faith
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Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth"--Each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint
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Contents; Prologue: The Earth's Rejects; Part One: The Labyrinth of the Word; 1. The Singer at the End of the World: Gregory of Tours; 2. The Librarian's Dream: Jerome; 3. Silencing the Books: Paula; 4. Of Lament: Radegund; 5. Quixote's Madness: Teresa of Avila; Part Two: Visions of Torture and Longing; 6. Trickster Laughs: Lawrence of the Gridirons; 7. Anatomical Annihilations: Bartholomew; 8. The Inscrutable Look: Magdalen; Part Three: An Indelicate Eros; 9. The Mother of Pornography: Agatha; 10. Unhidden Desires, Unquiet Secrets: Sebastian11. A Multitude of Demons and a Solitary Vice: AnthonyPart Four: Demons of Belief; 12. Legends of Sudden Explosions: Barbara; 13. Violent Jokes and Stolen Bones: Foy; 14. The Monstrous Saint: George; 15. In the Darkest Nights of the Year: Lucy; Part Five: The Uncanonized; 16. The Consolations of Castration: Origen; 17. At the Well of Tears: Margery Kempe; Notes on Sources; Acknowledgments
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